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To: ckilmer

It doesn’t but don’t let the word get out.


447 posted on 04/29/2010 7:06:36 AM PDT by ColdWater ("The theory of evolution really has no bearing on what I'm trying to accomplish with FR anyway. ")
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To: ColdWater; ckilmer
I know you know. But kindly educate me. Likely there’s a line or two in there that defines natural born citizen.

It doesn’t

The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens.
From "Law of Nations",Volume I, section 212. Now I know that is the 1793/97 translation. But the founders had the original French version, which many of them could read and translate for themselves, The later translation is just better in this instance. The original French said (less diacritical marks, sorry about that) :

Les citoyens sont les membres de la societe civile : lies a cette societe par certains devoirs et soumis a son autorite, ils participent avec egalite a ses avantages. Les naturels, ou indigenes, sont ceux qui sont nes dans le pays, de parens citoyens”

454 posted on 05/02/2010 7:25:05 PM PDT by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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