Also...Isn’t there the criminal aspect of **fraud**?
I would think that it would be criminal to hold oneself up as a natural born citizen, collect millions of dollars, and when one is **not** indeed a natural born citizen.
I would also think that being natural born is an intrinsic quality, just as being a black man or white woman is fundamental to one’s being and can not be created by the whim of any legislative body. A thousand Electoral Colleges can vote a person president, but if he is not natural born, he will **always** be a fraud if occupying the White House as president.
Precisely.
Some posters here have erroneously said: "There are only two kinds of citizens: natural-born and naturalized" (and then they often go on to say that born on American soil = citizen at birth = natural born).
They are mistaken.
It is true there are only two kinds of citizens.
However, those two kinds are:
citizen by NATURE (i.e. natural born); and
citizen by STATUTE (this includes naturalized and those "citizens from birth" born on the nation's soil).
A citizen by nature is natural-born, he is undisputedly and undoubtedly a citizen, he needs NO statute of any kind to explain or clarify his citizenship.
It's so simple, and yet so many posters here seem to misunderstand this.
Good post and an excellent retort their argument.
~~~Sounds logical to me .. like you can’t be a little bit
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