To: RipSawyer
I don’t think so, to be natural born he needs two parents who are citizens at the time of his birth, at least that was the original meaning of the term.
That's incorrect. The original meaning of the term came from the English common law, which requires only birth in the territory, regardless of the citizenship of one's parents. I previously cited James Madison, and I would like to think he was aware of its original meaning.
To: Michael Michael
That's incorrect. The original meaning of the term came from the English common law, which requires only birth in the territory, regardless of the citizenship of one's parents. I previously cited James Madison, and I would like to think he was aware of its original meaning.
Completely incorrect.
To be a "natural born citizen" one must be born in the US mainland of TWO US citizen parents.
Read the caselaw Obit
298 posted on
02/24/2009 3:43:39 AM PST by
Beckwith
(A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
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