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To: little jeremiah
Your quote from Vattel explains citizenship not Natural Born citizenship.

Are you blind?? Read it again.

§ 212. Citizens and natives.

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. As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights.

70 posted on 04/25/2011 10:22:26 AM PDT by edge919
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To: edge919; MamaTexan

Actually, my eyesight is getting worse, Unfortunately. I didn’t manage to read that part.

Oops!

I thought you were agreeing with MamaTexan that place of birth didn’t matter, only parentage.

Apologies!


71 posted on 04/25/2011 10:28:18 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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