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To: Mr Rogers
Repatriation means to return to the land of your citizenship, so if Obama returned at age 10 without repatriating, it meant he had lost his US citizenship while in Indonesia.

Words mean things. There is a QUESTION about Obama’s citizenship. I think he was born in Kenya, but there are only questions no proof. Unless of course you believe a birth certificate. I agree that IF Obama was born in Hawaii, the law is clear that, not being the age of majority, that his parents could not take away his “citizenship”. No foreign could take away his citizenship. IF HE WAS BORN IN THE USA. A BIG if. It is just unknown.

“I found the blog accurate in all the things that I have knowledge of.”

Hmmm...you mean like quoting from the 1797 translation of Vattel as if it was available during the 1787 convention?

It WAS available during the 1787 convention. In French and English.

26 posted on 02/29/2012 9:15:34 AM PST by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: faucetman

“It WAS available during the 1787 convention. In French and English. “

No. The 1797 translation was NOT available in 1787.

And in the French, Vattel NEVER used the phrase ‘natural born citizen’ - it being, after all, a phrase that didn’t exist when Vattel was writing in the 1750s. The closest equivalent would have been ‘natural born subject’ - and the French for that is & was “sujets naturel”.


34 posted on 02/29/2012 10:10:55 AM PST by Mr Rogers ("they found themselves made strangers in their own country")
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To: faucetman
It was available in 1760 in English. It used the word "native" which as Justice Waite pointed out, means the same thing in that era as "natural born citizen." Someone born to two citizen parents within the jurisdiction of a nation.
50 posted on 02/29/2012 12:24:08 PM PST by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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