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To: ROCKLOBSTER
Parents have to be citizens, not natural born.

Again, not true, per 14th amendment. Also, see "anchor babies."

75 posted on 11/25/2009 8:00:49 PM PST by Saab-driving Yuppie
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To: Saab-driving Yuppie
We're talking about a specific standard only applicable to eligibility for the US presidency, not any other office.

What you are talking about is a standard for legal residency, welfare, education and voting...and it was written to apply to freed slaves...not freeloaders.

80 posted on 11/25/2009 8:16:06 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, nothing more than bald haired hippies.)
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To: Saab-driving Yuppie
Again, not true, per 14th amendment. Also, see "anchor babies."

Since you offered Wikipedia this is from the page you supplied a URL to.

There is dispute regarding whether the foreign-born children of U.S. citizens are natural born citizens.[26] One view interprets the "natural born Citizen" clause as meaning that a person either is born in the United States or is a naturalized citizen.[27][not in citation given] According to this view, in order to be a "natural born citizen," a person must be born in the United States, or possibly an incorporated territory; otherwise, they are a citizen "by law" and are therefore a "statutory citizen," (not necessarily, however, a naturalized citizen, which implies a pre-existing foreign citizenship).[26] Another view holds that the clause only requires that a president be a citizen at the time of birth, whether under the Fourteenth Amendment or under federal law.[28]

Seems like you don't even read your own cited sources.

111 posted on 11/25/2009 8:57:01 PM PST by TigersEye (Sarah Palin 2010 - We Can't Afford To Wait)
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