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To: orinoco
The original definition of Natural Born Citizen was a person born to two American Citizens.

No, that was invented by the Birthers and adopted by you, but it was never true. It is true that at one time, descent of citizenship to children had to pass through the Father, but no longer and certainly not since the 14th Amendment.

125 posted on 03/31/2016 1:38:00 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: centurion316

The 14th Amendment is irrelevant to the definition of natural born.

It does not change the definition used by the Founders.

It does not address the issue of Presidential eligibility at all.

Even the author of the 14th, John Bingham said as much.

Mr. Bingham’s idea of “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” and William Douglas’s interpretation in a minority opinion in 1982 are at polar opposites to each other.


143 posted on 03/31/2016 1:51:54 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: centurion316

Gee it’s exactly what CRUZ said before he ran for senator in an interview : two citizen parents - born on the land It is also the strict intent of the constitution stand that his college professor said he took all the way through college So when did he change his mind and become a progressive on the constitution?


152 posted on 03/31/2016 2:07:09 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Trump makes me smile!)
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To: centurion316

So the framers defined natural born citizen to be a person born to one American citizen and not on American soil? Read your history you have it all wrong!


170 posted on 03/31/2016 3:07:04 PM PDT by orinoco (Orinoco)
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