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To: Hostage

The 19th amendment is about women’s right to vote

It addresses the two previous mentions of Natural Born Citizen not one iota

Natural Born Citizen is mentioned twice

Once in Constitution :

“No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”

Only once again in 1790 :

“The Naturalization Act of 1790 stated that “the children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens: Provided, That the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States.”

The 1795 Act repealed some of the 1790 act for simple citizenship requirements but it did not address the section one article II of the US Constitution where the term was first realized in detailing POTUS eligibility

That’s about it. There have been other rulings and acts on citizenship but those two areas are the ONLY place where the term Natural Born Citizen exists in founding documents and acts and subsequent rulings and legislations


81 posted on 01/20/2016 11:07:24 PM PST by wardaddy (Trump or Cruz.......its win win folks......so take a John Riggins pill .......lie on the carpet)
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To: wardaddy

There are only two categories:

Natural
Naturalized

Natural is the same as Natural born.

There is no third category, never was.

The third category is fiction born of fear of Obama’s true allegiance and loyalties. They are valid fears.

However, the genuine fears of Obama’s loyalties should not be carried over to fine Americans such as Ted Cruz.

Pre-19th Amendment America allowed for natural citizens to be sons of American citizen fathers inside a legitimate marriage. Such natural citizens could be born at sea, in a territory (Barry Goldwater), or abroad if domicile was maintained inside the United States and other factors such as no record of renouncing American citizenship, etc.

Post-19th Amendment America allowed for natural citizens to be sons or daughters born of either or both an American citizen father or mother. And that is how it was codified into law and regulations. You should look it up.

Today natural citizen (meaning not naturalized) is a status given to any child born anywhere of a citizen parent that meets certain criteria. The criteria is the codification used to determine if naturalization is applicable or not.

You should review the history of President Madison in these matters. Everything I said above for pre-19th Amendment America is directly supported by such history.


94 posted on 01/21/2016 7:53:38 AM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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