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To: RipSawyer
You not only have to be born in America you have to be a natural born citizen, Obama doesn’t qualify as natural born even if he had been born in the same cabin as Lincoln.

You might wish to take that up with James Madison:

It is an established maxim that birth is a criterion of allegiance. Birth however derives its force sometimes from place and sometimes from parentage, but in general place is the most certain criterion; it is what applies in the United States; it will therefore be unnecessary to investigate any other.

James Madison, House of Representatives, May 22, 1789



189 posted on 02/22/2009 8:50:02 PM PST by Michael Michael
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To: Michael Michael

I don’t have a lot of time to dig further into this right now but if that quotation is all that matters then any child born to a mother who managed to illegally sneak into the country long enough to give birth is qualified for the presidency. Regardless of today’s goings on I have a hard time believing that is what the founders intended. Certainly they didn’t consider everyone born in this country natural born citizens, that would have meant that slaves as well as all the members of the native american tribes would have been eligible to the presidency which is obviously not the case.


237 posted on 02/23/2009 4:42:19 AM PST by RipSawyer (I have scant HOPE for the PRESENT absent a major CHANGE.)
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