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To: null and void
The term hasn't had an actual legal definition since.

Then how do you know who is a natural born citizen and who isn't?

143 posted on 06/27/2009 10:33:16 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

>>Then how do you know who is a natural born citizen and who isn’t?<<

This has been a problem since it came up.
You have to realize that the framers understood that language clearly, so clear that they didn’t think it needed a definition.
You have to go back to their point of reference to determine what that meant.

But as for now we can be satisfied with what the confirmation hearings that John McCain went through without further consideration that Obama agreed to.
that being that BOTH parents had to have been American Citizens.

Under that alone Obama is disqualified since he himself states that his father was a citizen of kenya.


147 posted on 06/27/2009 10:39:51 AM PDT by Munz ("We're all here for you OK? It's a circle of love" Rham Emanuel)
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To: Non-Sequitur
Then how do you know who is a natural born citizen and who isn't?

Excellent question.

We know that the child born of foreigners on foreign soil does not qualify.

We all agree that a child of American citizens, born within the confines of The United States does.

I know from your long, consistent and vitriolic support that you believe having a single under-aged American parent qualifies 0bama to be the president, regardless of his place of birth.

I assure you, that makes you a trivial minority among thinking people who love America. I am generously assuming you fit in that group.

184 posted on 06/27/2009 11:53:23 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 159 of our national holiday from reality.)
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