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To: parsifal

Parsy, refute what Professor Yinger found with a scholarly article based on documents from the era. Your opinion isn’t enough on FR and you know it. Post a treatise that uses statements from the Founding Fathers that dual citizenship was not a concern.


139 posted on 02/22/2010 4:29:42 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: DJ MacWoW

I gave you the link to the Great Mother of All Natural Born Citizen Quotes, didn’t I?

And I told you what was wrong with your logic.

parsy, who has been helpful


141 posted on 02/22/2010 4:38:33 PM PST by parsifal (Abatis: Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside)
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To: DJ MacWoW
Post a treatise that uses statements from the Founding Fathers that dual citizenship was not a concern.

I came across a quote from James Madison, who is called the "father of the Constitution."

It is an established maxim that birth is a criterion of allegiance. Birth however derives its force sometimes from place and sometimes from parentage, but in general place is the most certain criterion; it is what applies in the United States; it will therefore be unnecessary to investigate any other..."
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_2_2s6.html
162 posted on 02/22/2010 6:25:01 PM PST by sometime lurker
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