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To: MHGinTN

Can you produce ANY definition from the Founding Fathers for the term because unlike many others it has no basis in Common Law.


253 posted on 02/28/2009 3:44:50 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee
The term “natural born citizen” has NEVER been defined in the U.S. Constitution or in codified U.S. law. However …

Rep. John Bingham of Ohio, considered the father of the Fourteenth Amendment, confirms the understanding and construction the framers used in regards to birthright and jurisdiction while speaking on civil rights of citizens in the House on March 9, 1866:
" ... I find no fault with the introductory clause [S 61 Bill], which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents [plural, meaning two] not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen..." (http://americamustknow.com/default.aspx)

265 posted on 02/28/2009 3:50:53 PM PST by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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How many of you keyboard comandos got off your ass yesterday and went to one of the Tea Parties to condemn
Obama and his bailout disaster.

I did and am fed up with most on FR who don’t get out
to rallies to either support Conservative causes
or expose the Left.

I have been to many many rallies over the years and
FR has the least of the conservative attendees.

Use your time and energy to expose Obama or is that to hard for you


269 posted on 02/28/2009 3:54:10 PM PST by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin - Jindal 2012)
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