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To: edge919

Quoting Scalia doesn’t help your faither argument. “I mean, isn’t it clear that the natural born requirement in the Constitution was intended explicitly to exclude some Englishmen who had come here and spent some time here and then went back and raised their families in England?” He could easily be talking about Barak Obama Sr.


That’s true only if you selectively edit and leave out Scalia’s emphasis on natural born citizenship requiring “jus soli” with no mention whatsoever of “jus sanguinis” in his remarks.

In my humble opinion the proof is in the pudding: there are five conservative/originalist justices on the high court bench and it only takes four justices to agree to hear an Obama eligibility appeal before the Court and eight appeals have been rejected over a two and a half year period.


242 posted on 09/06/2010 10:41:40 AM PDT by jamese777
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To: jamese777
That’s true only if you selectively edit and leave out Scalia’s emphasis on natural born citizenship requiring “jus soli” with no mention whatsoever of “jus sanguinis” in his remarks.

You're not paying attention. Scalia's comment is acknowledging that the natural born requirement was intended to exclude jus soli births to foreign national parents.

246 posted on 09/06/2010 12:18:08 PM PDT by edge919
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