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To: Mr Rogers
Actually, the Supreme Court has said the 14th merely restates the definition of natural born citizen:

You read my comment up above citing minor which says "The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens." and you still want to post that the 14th defines "natural citizen"?

That sir, is cognitive dissonance.

41 posted on 10/01/2012 10:36:36 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: DiogenesLamp

The Constitution did NOT spell out the meaning of NBC because the meaning was already understood. It was a well known legal term, long used. And that long accepted meaning included those born of alien parents.

That was the Supreme Court’s point - the wording used in the 14th was a restatement, 100 years later, of what everyone understood the term to mean when the Constitution was written in 1787.


48 posted on 10/02/2012 6:43:35 AM PDT by Mr Rogers
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