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To: bushpilot1
First, your quote nowhere has what you originally posted "they will destroy everything which we have built. If you are trying to argue that Thomas Jefferson didn't want foreigners to become citizens, look some paragraphs down to
If they come of themselves, they are entitled to all the rights of citizenship: but I doubt the expediency of inviting them by extraordinary encouragements…
So he appears to be saying the US should not take extraordinary measures to encourage immigrants. He certainly was not saying that natural born citizenship was restricted to the descendents of the original citizens at the time of the Constitution.
304 posted on 09/12/2011 4:06:59 PM PDT by sometime lurker
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To: sometime lurker

Jefferson desired a homogeneous government.

Now professor, how does one begin and sustain a homogeneous government?

The citizens should be?


305 posted on 09/12/2011 4:39:16 PM PDT by bushpilot1
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