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To: Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
It's true I don't believe the Founders intented foreign citizens to give birth to natural born citizens without having gone through the naturalization process themselves, and it's true I believe the purpose of that intent was to prevent someone with questionable loyalties from holding office.

If, however, you believe the conversation should end based on the illustrative language of someone who has given themselves the nickname 'fantasywriter', it's your choice.

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if you really think that's where I'm coming from, I don't think I have anything more to say to you.

I would never, for one second, make a single assumption about what you think based on the words of someone else.

I just don't work that way.

340 posted on 03/20/2013 11:30:45 AM PDT by MamaTexan (To follow Original Constitutional Intent, one MUST acknowledge the Right of Secession)
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To: MamaTexan; Fantasywriter
I would never, for one second, make a single assumption about what you think based on the words of someone else.

Fair enough. Mr. Fantasy made a long post about the people you are "engaged with," and you said you agreed with every word, so you can see why I took it personally.

It's true I don't believe the Founders intented foreign citizens to give birth to natural born citizens without having gone through the naturalization process themselves, and it's true I believe the purpose of that intent was to prevent someone with questionable loyalties from holding office.

I don't claim to know for sure what the Founders intended, but the lengthy reasoning in Wong Kim Ark has convinced me that if they intended to close off that possibility, they did a lousy job of it. And since I don't generally think they did a lousy job, I suspect they were okay with the scenario you describe.

More to the point, the people we entrust with figuring out what they intended--the Supreme Court and other judges--seem to me to have come down pretty clearly on the "born here = NBC" side.

369 posted on 03/20/2013 1:21:48 PM PDT by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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