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To: WKUHilltopper

I could not disagree with Levin more on this. Treating the foreign nationality of one parent as irrelevant is wrong, wrong, wrong. Jurisdictional and legal issues abound. Even the U.S. State Department does not hire people with a parent as a foreign national; especially where dual loyalties can be involved. Too tricky.

Also, I argue that the one parent = natural born claim is a sloppy construction for both defining “natural born” and distinguishing it from ordinary “citizen”. There is no effective difference between “citizen” and “natural born” citizen if you let one parent be foreign born or not an American citizen.


5 posted on 01/06/2016 7:46:25 PM PST by bioqubit (bioqubit: Educated Men Make Terrible Slaves - Aristotle)
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To: bioqubit

It seems to me that natural born means both parents are citizens of the us. This was clearly explained by some of the framers of the Constitution.


8 posted on 01/06/2016 7:52:15 PM PST by GilGil
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To: bioqubit

And you are a constitutional expert? Have we heard your name? If there were anything to this a real expert would have said so, and none have from either side.
Of course you are free to say anything you want, just don’t expect anyone to take your word on anything if you are going down that road.


10 posted on 01/06/2016 8:04:07 PM PST by libbylu
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To: bioqubit

Even the U.S. State Department does not hire people with a parent as a foreign national

>>>>>>>>>>>

Huma Abedin?


38 posted on 01/07/2016 12:27:24 AM PST by woofie
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