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To: CDR Kerchner
Thanks.

I was especially impressed by his pointing out the neologism of introducing the notion of "natural born citizenship" pointing out that opponents created a strawman argument that there is a premium class of citizens that has an extra status and privilege in the country that was not true.

The left are masters at twisting language to make words mean the opposite of what they really mean and then sneak them into legislation or media stories. I don't mean to imply that they're smarter than the rest of us, just that the rest of us wouldn't dare to do something like that. But we're smart enough to recognize it when we see it. We just have an innate sense of responsibility that prevents us from foisting that kind of nonsense on the rest of society.

I've always argued that the "natural born citizen" clause was an additional requirement to be President, not a class of citizen that doesn't exist. However, that's what the opponents are trying to persuade: that we have only "citizen" and "naturalized citizen" and that "natural born citizen" is equal to "citizen" because we only have two classes of citizenship.

The Framers' intention for "natural born citizen" is demonstrated by how they debated and wrote the Naturalization Act of 1790, recognized their mistake in interpreting the natural born citizen requirement in Article II Section 1, and then correcting it in the repeal of Naturalization Act of 1790 and the passing of the Naturalization Act of 1795.

I've also argued that the Preamble of the Constitution lays out that We the People and our Posterity are to be secured by the Constitution. This also makes clear that the Framers meant the Constitution to protect the citizens and their citizen children. Detractors argue that the Preamble has no force of law, and also that the Federalist essays are just dead white men's writings.

And finally, even contemporaries like Thomas Paine wrote in The Rights of Man (1791) how the Constitution prevented foreigners and "half a foreigner" to become President, so it was another example of how "natural born citizen" was a requirement to be President and not a phantom class of citizenship.

-PJ

45 posted on 01/24/2024 3:35:36 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Political Junkie Too
All one has to do is read the Constitution to see the various kinds of citizenship used and mentioned therein. And we must remember logic and sentence structure and meaning. Adjectives mean something when used in sentences, terms, and especially in contracts created by We the People such as the U.S. Constitution. Adjectives in constitutional terms cannot be ignored. What is natural and created by the Laws of Nature and what is not, and only created by the Positive Laws of man. Only social engineering sociologist and language manipulating Progressive/Marxist bent people and/or political candidate's guns for hire would try to convince the American electorate otherwise See the following:





49 posted on 01/24/2024 4:01:27 PM PST by CDR Kerchner ( retired military officer, natural law, Vattel, presidential, eligibility, natural born Citizen )
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