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To: Jeff Winston

“This is simply not true. Minor v Happersett had one or two sentences that might POSSIBLY have been relevant”

The Court’s holding in Minor vs Happersett states that she (Virginia Minor) was a US citizen because she was born in the US to parents who were citizens.

This was because in order to decide if Virginia Minor was eligible to vote the court first had to establish whether she was a citizen. The criteria the court used was born in the US of two US citizens.

We all need to accept that we got zoomed in 2008 by the Democrats who had an ineligible candidate they wanted to run for President. Fortunately for them McStain’s eligibility was questionable. So the GOP and Dems banded together and let both of them run. Now the GOP is eager to continue to put up their ineligible candidates for 2016. In effect they are trying to backdoor re-define the concept of natural born citizen which is the job of the Supreme Court. Sadly SCOTUS is trying to duck their duty so the issue rages on.


366 posted on 03/09/2013 12:01:32 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
This was because in order to decide if Virginia Minor was eligible to vote the court first had to establish whether she was a citizen.

That's a misunderstanding. There was never a question about whether she was a citizen or not; nobody claimed she wasn't. The court wasn't trying to establish that at all.

396 posted on 03/09/2013 12:29:25 PM PST by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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To: Georgia Girl 2
The Court’s holding in Minor vs Happersett states that she (Virginia Minor) was a US citizen because she was born in the US to parents who were citizens.

That is correct.

And they never, EVER said that if she HADN'T been born to parents who were citizens, she would not have been a natural born citizen.

469 posted on 03/09/2013 2:13:09 PM PST by Jeff Winston
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