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To: centurion316
I'm no Constitutional scholar, so I will defer to those who are, but I'm thinking that former slaves and American Indians made citizens by the 14th Amendment were also made eligible for the Office of President

No Amendment can reach back in time and alter birth status. They weren't born citizens at all. Therefore, they could never have been natural-born citizens. Their children, however, could be.

894 posted on 10/17/2010 9:31:41 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry
No Amendment can reach back in time and alter birth status. They weren't born citizens at all. Therefore, they could never have been natural-born citizens.

Could be, but since that class of people are all dead, we'll never know for sure.

933 posted on 10/18/2010 5:05:54 AM PDT by centurion316
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