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To: odawg

No.

It was your citation, but you need to go back and read it again, without the filter of what you want it to say.

They were silent on the topic of persons born within the United States. They did want to make it clear that if you were traveling or stationed abroad, your children would still be US “natural born citizens”. So it could be taken as evidence that the first congress, the guys who either wrote or were involved in ratifying the Constitution took a broad view of who should be a “natural born citizen”.

Claiming that your sources say something they don’t is a good way to make sure that this NBC convo remains a topic for grumpy old farts in smokey back rooms.


89 posted on 12/03/2023 5:59:52 PM PST by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: absalom01

“They did want to make it clear that if you were traveling or stationed abroad, your children would still be US “natural born citizens”.”

True, natural born citizens, but only if they were born of citizen parents, which you refuse to acknowledge. Why would they specify, of citizen parents? They already discussed aliens becoming citizens. They did not mention aliens becoming natural born citizens. The children of naturalized citizens would indeed be natural born citizens. Did you, by the way, just happened to slip across the border?

Let me ask you a question. Why is it that, long before this was ever a controversy, people were taught that natural born meant born of citizen parents. I was taught that in American history when I had American history in the 11th grade. Later on, in the 70s, when I went to college, I remember the old professor explaining what a natural born citizen was. He had a doctorate in history. My mother’s geneneration was taught that, she told me, and her mother’s also. Why did all these millions of people and all these highly educated people have it so wrong for so long.?


95 posted on 12/03/2023 7:06:56 PM PST by odawg
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