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To: noinfringers2
It was Franklin’s referral to Washington that brought about the inclusion of the the explicit term of ‘natural born’ in the Constitution.

You mean John Jay.

Secondly I believe there is a lot of mischief possible as to eligibility if only place of birth is required. I have previously noted the cases of the children of the Muslim President of Egypt being born in the USA.

I have previously noted that the children of the representatives of foreign governments, including children of ambassadors and invading armies, were always special exceptions. I think the children of the President of Egypt would fall into this category.

With that there is the possibility that any anchor baby born in the USA but reared in a nation very hostile to the USA would be eligible to have their feelings expressed as POTUSA.

And what about children of two US citizens who promptly moved abroad, and who were totally raised to adulthood in Russia or Egypt? It's completely clear that such children can completely grow up in a foreign country, be total foreigners in every sense except for their passport, and come back and legally run for President.

What about natives with American parents and grandparents who are bribed by China or Russia? That's the far bigger danger anyway. One of the Founding Fathers (I forget which one it was) in fact noted this. He said that a foreign government wouldn't be as likely to try and sneak people born in their country into our government. They would be more likely to bribe a native, because the native wouldn't be suspected by the people.

Look, we could really get into the nuts and bolts of this, but I know from past experience that there's no point in arguing it. You'll believe what you want to believe, regardless of whether it's actually true or not. That seems to be the one ever-present characteristic of birthers. So go ahead and believe whatever you want. It's not true, but go ahead and believe it anyway.

167 posted on 11/14/2012 9:37:24 PM PST by Jeff Winston
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To: Jeff Winston
I have previously noted that the children of the representatives of foreign governments, including children of ambassadors and invading armies, were always special exceptions. I think the children of the President of Egypt would fall into this category.

He wasn't president when they were born. He was probably a nobody.

222 posted on 11/15/2012 5:09:30 PM PST by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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