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To: xzins
The discussion really is not about whether he’s legally qualified to be a candidate for the Presidency. That has been pretty well settled by courts who’ve determined that any native born citizen equals a natural born citizen.

Well, no. This is not true at all. The Supreme Court has legal precedence. Its definition as proposed in Minor v Happersett and as affirmed in U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark is "all children born in the country to parents who were its citizens." I would agree that many people today are confused and equate native-born with natural-born, but by legal precedence, native-born still requires birth to citizen parents under the definition used in those decisions. The only way Rubio is natural-born is if his parents became U.S. citzens before he was born.

431 posted on 09/21/2011 9:07:28 AM PDT by edge919
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To: edge919
-- but by legal precedence, native-born still requires birth to citizen parents under the definition used in those decisions. --

I think you meant to say citizen parents is an attribute of natural born citizenship. That's clear from your follow-up sentence.

439 posted on 09/21/2011 9:33:16 AM PDT by Cboldt
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