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To: Brilliant
My suspicion is that the courts will ultimately find that “natural born citizen” simply means that you were a citizen from birth.

They may "find" that, but that would be wrong. It means born as a natural citizen with no other allegiance.

52 posted on 01/16/2012 12:52:29 PM PST by DiogenesLamp
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To: DiogenesLamp

“no other allegiance.”

I’m open to suggestions on how that works, but nothing I can envision would seem to do it. I don’t think you can say that a person born in America as an American citizen is disqualified just because some other country has some law that says they could be a citizen of another country. Then you are effectively deferring to a foreign country who can run for President in this country. Maybe if someone applies for citizenship of some other country... But if that’s all we’re talking about, then I suppose most people would agree, and we would not have much to argue about.


72 posted on 01/16/2012 1:36:47 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: DiogenesLamp

Thinking this thru... Israel has a law which states that any Jew may apply for Israeli citizenship. Does that mean that no Jew may run for President of the United States?


76 posted on 01/16/2012 2:03:08 PM PST by Brilliant
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