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To: Inconvenient Truthteller; Sherman Logan
NBC merely means citizenship at birth

False.

There are those who are naturalized at birth by statute (such as Barry 0 if his claimed birth facts are true); but such people are not natural born citizens. The idea that mere "born citizens" should be eligible to the Presidency was proposed by Hamilton and rejected by the Constitutional Convention.

You should stop spreading this anti-American disinformation.

83 posted on 08/27/2012 10:15:56 AM PDT by Plummz (pro-constitution, anti-corruption)
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To: Plummz

“No person shall be eligible to the office of President of the United States unless he be now a Citizen of one of the States, or hereafter be born a Citizen of the United States.”

That was what Hamilton proposed.

There is no record of any debate on the subject, and the change may for all we know have been purely stylistic, with no intent to change the meaning at all.

You know, I don’t recall voting on whether you get to be the decider as to what opinions are American and which are not. Since the whole birther controversy has probably worked in Obama’s favor, I guest we can assume its proponents are working for his re-election.

That is at least as logical as your claim that anyone who disagrees with you is anti-American.


89 posted on 08/27/2012 11:32:12 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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