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To: BuckeyeTexan

In Minor v. Happersett, Chief Justice Waite writes:

“The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.”

37 posted on Tuesday, December 28, 2010 11:19:31 AM by BuckeyeTexan


That is Vattel’s definition that was used by the Founding Fathers in writing the Constitution.

BO is NOT constitutionally qualified to be POTUS regardless of where he was born because by his own admission his dad was a British/Kenyan citizen.


55 posted on 12/28/2010 11:56:54 AM PST by FS11
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To: FS11

I know all about de Vattel. He invented Velveeta.


79 posted on 12/29/2010 11:01:22 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
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