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To: DJ MacWoW
Why would I refute Yinger on that? He is correct. That's not your problem.

Your problem is that the Constitution tells us what a President must be, not what a president can't be. A President must be a natural born citizen. And since a person can be a natural born citizen (required) and a dual citizen (not forbidden) at the same time, dual citizens can be President.
128 posted on 02/22/2010 3:55:11 PM PST by EnderWiggins
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To: EnderWiggins
And since a person can be a natural born citizen (required) and a dual citizen (not forbidden) at the same time, dual citizens can be President.

You're wrong and you know it. At the time of the Constitution, English law, Blackwell and Vattel all stated that a natural born citizen was born to TWO citizen parents. You have NOTHING to refute that except lefty sites and your opinion.

From Yinger:

In this letter, dated July 25, 1787, Jay wrote:

Permit me to hint, whether it would not be wise & seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expressly that the Command in chief of the american army shall not be given to, nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen (emphasis in the original).(5)

The Founding Fathers were very concerned about foreign influence and went to great lengths to design a government that would be insulated from it.

Persons having foreign attachments will be sent among us & insinuated into our councils in order to be made instruments for their purposes. Every one knows the vast sums laid out in Europe for secret services. He was not singular in these ideas. A great many of the most influential men in Massts reasoned in the same manner.(22)

130 posted on 02/22/2010 4:09:13 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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