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To: buzzer; null and void
“Natural born”, according to your constitution, means born of two American citizens. I'm not sure how being born of two Americans on foreign soil might affect this, but both parents must be American, for their child to be a Natural born American”.

Have I got that right, Nully?

40 posted on 05/08/2010 2:26:36 PM PDT by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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To: fanfan
All available evidence suggests that the Founding Fathers intended for the requirements to hold the Office of the President be unique.

Merely being an American citizen did not suffice, they reserved the office to that singular person, a "Natural Born Citizen", someone of undivided loyalties based on BOTH place of birth AND citizenship of parents.

Thus they followed both Vattel and Blackstone in believing that a Natural Born Citizen is a citizen both under the doctrine of jus soli, that is by being born on the soil of the country, and jus sanguinis, by having the blood of that country's citizen parents flowing through their veins.

44 posted on 05/08/2010 2:48:25 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 471 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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