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To: Non-Sequitur
But not the only one, as Justice Waite stated.

The ONLY definition without doubt is the only definition he could use, and it was the definition that he clearly said was used by the framers. Sorry, you don't like it, but he only picked one definition.

202 posted on 08/26/2010 7:40:50 AM PDT by edge919
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To: edge919

The judge ruled on the case as narrowly as possible to settle the matter before the court (as a prudent judge should do). Because Wong Kim Ark was born after the period in which your proposed definition of “natural born citizen” clearly breaks down (i.e. the period in which persons born as colonial subjects were having children born as United States citizens), the judge was not required to point out the inadequacy of this definition, and exercised judicial restraint in not going out of his way to do so.


203 posted on 08/26/2010 7:46:17 AM PDT by zort
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To: edge919
The ONLY definition without doubt is the only definition he could use...

Says who?

... and it was the definition that he clearly said was used by the framers.

He doesn't clearly say that at all. In fact, there is no documentation that I'm aware of on what definition the framers used when they crafted Article II.

Sorry, you don't like it, but he only picked one definition.

He didn't pick either definition, actually. Merely acknowledged both.

223 posted on 08/26/2010 9:19:12 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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