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

No. Here's the Minor citation:

At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.

Under the SCOTUS definition, as with Vattel, "native" is the primary term. Therefore, under this (and Vattels') definition of native (i.e., native born), one must be born in the country to citizen parents. Natural-born is the same, so technically native-born = natural-born, but BOTH require citizen parents as defined by the Supreme Court.

443 posted on 09/21/2011 9:42:49 AM PDT by edge919
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To: edge919
Ahhh. I see how you arrived at that. I think, however, that "natives=natural born" might be distinguishable from "native born=natural born." That is, "natives" and "native born" not being the same set.

I've seen "native born" being applied to describe the set of people born on the land, without any consideration whatsoever to the citizenship or allegiance of their parents, hence my confusion.

445 posted on 09/21/2011 9:50:01 AM PDT by Cboldt
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