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To: rbmillerjr
My evidence is the Constitution, Section II, Article I, I believe.

ROFLMAO! Trying to act as if a stated requirement for eligibility equates a definition of it is pretty pathetic.

Again, your actual evidence is [crickets]

83 posted on 02/15/2013 8:33:35 AM PST by MamaTexan (To follow Original Constitutional Intent, one MUST acknowledge the Right of Secession)
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To: MamaTexan

I noticed that you didn’t comment on all of the sources.

Pathetic? No. Just your selective perception.

I detect a sweet anger as you flail away, though.

lol


84 posted on 02/15/2013 8:59:33 AM PST by rbmillerjr (We have No Opposition to Obama's Socialist Agenda)
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To: MamaTexan

Lynn v. Clark in regard to “natural born”

Although eligibility for the Presidency was not an issue in any 19th-century litigation, there have been a few cases that shed light on “natural-born citizen”. The leading case is Lynch v. Clarke,[35] which dealt with a New York law (similar to laws of other states at that time) that only a U.S. citizen could inherit real estate. The plaintiff, Julia Lynch, had been born in New York while her parents, both British, were briefly visiting the U.S., and shortly thereafter all three left for Britain and never returned to the U.S. The New York Chancery Court determined that, under common law and prevailing statutes, she was a U.S. citizen by birth and nothing had deprived her of that citizenship, notwithstanding that both her parents were not U.S. citizens or that British law might also claim her through her parents’ nationality. In the course of the decision, the court cited the Constitutional provision and said:

Suppose a person should be elected president who was native born, but of alien parents; could there be any reasonable doubt that he was eligible under the Constitution? I think not. The position would be decisive in his favor, that by the rule of the common law, in force when the Constitution was adopted, he is a citizen


85 posted on 02/15/2013 9:09:04 AM PST by rbmillerjr (We have No Opposition to Obama's Socialist Agenda)
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