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To: Mr Rogers; Fantasywriter
"NBC wasn’t something pulled out of thin air. It was used interchangeably with natural born subject, and NBS has a well established legal meaning: born within the realm. The WKA decision discusses it at great length."

1795, Zephaniah Swift, US Congressman and future Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court published, “A System of the Laws of the State of Connecticut: in Six Books".

In what is the first legal treatise published in the United States, Swift wrote, “The children of aliens born in this state are considered as natural born subjects and have the same rights with the rest of the citizens.”

So the question would be, "How did the Framers inform the citizens of Connecticut that the term natural born had a new meaning?"

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129 posted on 02/15/2013 10:46:28 AM PST by 4Zoltan
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To: 4Zoltan

Had any fresh ‘Bill’ [Clinton] leg tingles lately?


130 posted on 02/15/2013 10:48:18 AM PST by Fantasywriter
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