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To: El Gato
Check out Subchapter III of Chapter 12 of Title 8 of the U.S. Code.

It spells out the law regarding citizenship. (Apparently that's current law, you'd have to go back to some reference to see what the law was at the time of Zer0's hatching.)

I have never seen ANYTHING that stipulates in LAW that the father must be a citizen at the time of birth to establish "Natural Born Citizenship" status.

40 posted on 10/14/2009 11:23:14 PM PDT by Yossarian
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To: Yossarian
I have never seen ANYTHING that stipulates in LAW that the father must be a citizen at the time of birth to establish "Natural Born Citizenship" status.

I think that must have something to do with that fact that there is no law that states that a person born in the US must have two US citizen parents in order to be a natural born citizen.

42 posted on 10/15/2009 12:27:17 AM PDT by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: Yossarian; El Gato; trumandogz; John Valentine

The link that Yossarian posts refers to ‘citizen’ and not ‘natural born citizen’.

From Larry Walker’s blog:

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Article 2, section 1 of the Constitution states, “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 who shall not attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United Satates.”
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The addition of a grandfather clause in this paragraph says a lot as to the meaning of natural born. The first thing it says is that being born in the US is not enough to be natural born, otherwise the grandfather clause would not be necessary. The writers and delegates, having been born in the US, wanted to be eligible for the presidency, but most were the children of British subjects. Knowing that that eliminated them from being natural born and, thus, from eligibility, they included the grandfather clause which expired when the last person alive at the time of the ratification of the Constitution died. So, being a native born citizen is not the same as being natural born. If it were the framers would not have included the clause.

When asked to define natural born citizen, John Bingham, the author of the 14th ammendment which extended the bill of rights to former slaves, stated, “Any human born to parents who are US citizens and are under no other jurisdiction or authority.” The Naturalization Act of 1790, also passed by this congress, declared “And the children of citizens of the US shall be considered as natural born, provided that the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been a resident of the US.” Neither of these definitions, one from US law, mentions birthplace, only the parents’ citizenship.


50 posted on 10/15/2009 5:00:35 AM PDT by Hostage
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