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To: Plummz

That established meaning being someone who was born domestically to citizen parents .

You should stop lying about this.


Founder and Framer James Madison disagreed:
“It is an established maxim that birth is a criterion of allegiance. Birth however derives its force sometimes from place and sometimes from parentage, but in general place is the most certain criterion; it is what applies in the United States; it will therefore be unnecessary to investigate any other.”

A three judge panel of the Indiana Court of Appeals also disagreed, 220 years after James Madison: “Based on the language of Article II, Section 1, Clause 4 and the guidance provided by Wong Kim Ark, we conclude that persons born within the borders of the United States are “natural born citizens” for Article II, Section 1 purposes regardless of the citizenship of their parents. Just as a person “born within the British dominions [was] a natural-born British subject” at the time of the framing of the U.S. Constitution, so too were those “born in the allegiance of the United States natural-born citizens.”
“Ankeny, et. al. v The Governor of Indiana, Mitch Daniels, November 12, 2009


63 posted on 03/19/2011 11:21:02 AM PDT by jamese777
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To: jamese777

The Madison quote you posted said nothing about a “Natural born citizen.”

Please stop posting lies to FreeRepublic.com.

You are correct that the Indiana Supreme Court is full of treasonous bastards who may have to answer for their crimes some day; but that is irrelevant.


90 posted on 03/21/2011 10:40:40 PM PDT by Plummz (pro-constitution, anti-corruption)
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