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To: noinfringers2

The 14th Amendment talks of Naturalized and Natural Born citizens. Since being Naturalized means being given citizenship to those who were not born here and were raised in a foreign country, that leave the rest under the Natural Born. People who were born here by people who reside here. That is how I look at it.


402 posted on 09/20/2011 11:00:56 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Lazlo in PA

My take/reading of the 14th Amendment is that it is specific as to two kinds of persons being plain citizens of the USA, i.e. those persons born in the USA and/or those naturalized. There is nothing mentioned about conferring on either kind of person the distinctive characteristic of being a ‘natural born citizen’ and it does not deal with the possibility of such. For the one kind of the citizen, i.e. the naturalized, the gate to ‘natural born citizen’ is closed. For the other kind of citizen the gate for ‘natural born citizen’ can be opened depending on parentage. I see no conflict with my previous statement that ‘natural born citizen’ is distinctive and intended by the Founders to be such.


419 posted on 09/21/2011 7:21:47 AM PDT by noinfringers2
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