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To: calenel

John Jay to George Washington:

“Permit me to hint, whether it would be wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expressly that the Command in Chief of the American army shall not be given to nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen.”

Clearly anyone born with foreign nationality is not a natural born citizen as they are also a foreigner, the very people the founders were excluding with the use of that phrase.


34 posted on 04/28/2022 6:43:21 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“Clearly anyone born with foreign nationality is not a natural born citizen as they are also a foreigner, the very people the founders were excluding with the use of that phrase.”

If they are a citizen by birth, then they are an NBC. There is zero other evidence to support a different definition. The glossary you imagine attached to the Constitution with alternate definitions for words you don’t like the standard definition for seems to have gone missing.

A suggestion (a hint) by John Jay to George Washington for which there is no evidence of full implementation is just a suggestion. If that is the best you’ve got, find another hobby.


35 posted on 04/28/2022 6:50:38 PM PDT by calenel (Undo the Coup)
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