"It would appear that A Natural Born Citizen -- born in country by citizen parents (Plural)-- would be the logical answer to the above question."
NS wrote:
pity that John Jay never said that though.
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It's a "pity" that John Bingham pretty much does (see post # 29):
Bingham states:
"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} not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen "
(John Bingham in the United States House on March 9, 1866)
It's not "birther" logic.
It's called an inference:
inference:
Logic.
a. the process of deriving the strict logical consequences of assumed premises.
b. the process of arriving at some conclusion that, though it is not logically derivable from the assumed premises, possesses some degree of probability relative to the premises.
STE=Q
Then why didn't they include that in the amendment?
It's called an inference...
Then could not one also infer that since that language was not included in the amendment, then Bingham's opinion was not that of a majority of the Senators voting?