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To: wintertime

Should you carefully read the Constitutional requirements wrt the Presidency you will note that they allowed those NOT natural born citizens to become president. Those who came into the country 14 years or more BEFORE the ratification were also eligible. Only after that generation died out did the “natural born requirement” become operative. Alexander Hamilton was eligible under the phrasing discussed and he was a member of the Committee on Style at the Convention which determined the wording of the document.

“Blue” has nothing to do with this issue and I merely pointed out that it is incorrect to believe that there was any definition within the Constitution defining the phrase “natural born”. Nor within the most definitive commentary the Federalist Papers mainly the work of Hamilton.

I certainly have no argument with you regarding the dishonorable nature of Urkle and his followers but it has been that way for two hundred years the length of time the Dmeocrat Party has existed.


73 posted on 10/02/2009 4:47:01 PM PDT by arrogantsob
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To: arrogantsob
“Blue” has nothing to do with this issue and I merely pointed out that it is incorrect to believe that there was any definition within the Constitution defining the phrase “natural born”. Nor within the most definitive commentary the Federalist Papers mainly the work of Hamilton.
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If your reasoning were applied to every word, term, phrase, sentence, and paragraph of our Constitution it would be the size of the IRS code!

No,...Ultimately, whether our experiment succeeds depends on our honest good character and fear of the Lord.

It is self evident that our Founding Fathers believed that the term “natural born” had a commonly understood definition among the people and did not need an exacting definition.

It is also self-evident that Obama is not a man of honest goodwill who fears the Lord. If he were, he would have been **HONORED** to promptly provide all documentation related to his natural born status.

76 posted on 10/02/2009 4:59:13 PM PDT by wintertime (People are not stupid! Good ideas win!)
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