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To: allmendream
Let us also not forget that unless you accept a definition of “natural born citizen” not in wide circulation here or anywhere else until AFTER the election - you are a traitor who ignores the Constitution - and our elected officials and conservative commentators who refuse to sign on are either morons or in on the conspiracy!!!!!

You made a mistake. You should have said "Unless you accept the CORRECT definition that was well known to the founders..."

133 posted on 08/03/2011 12:25:45 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Abortion is Murder and Democrats are evil.)
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To: DiogenesLamp
No, the mistake is yours.

The first Congress, made up of many of our founders, wrote in the Naturalization Act of 1790 that citizens born overseas of citizen parents were natural born citizens.

While that comports with the “two citizen parents” requirement of the post 2008 popular definition - it certainly doesn't comport with the “born in country” requirement.

Prior to the election this was not a well known or popular definition of “natural born citizen” - most eligibility debates focused on the dual citizenship angle - or the authenticity of the Hawaii abstract COLB.

Now, of course, we have people claiming that they learned this in grade school - but were somehow conveniently forgetful of that fact until sometime after the election in 2008.

135 posted on 08/03/2011 12:49:25 PM PDT 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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