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To: allmendream

Duh, he wrote the first edition in French. Which many of the founders, including Franklin, were fluent in. They didn’t need to wait for a Translation, they already KNEW what it meant.


17 posted on 02/17/2011 2:56:13 PM PST by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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To: Danae

Natives or indigenous is what it meant.

Only later, after the writing of the Constitution, was it ‘translated’ as “natural born citizen”.


19 posted on 02/17/2011 2:58:52 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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