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To: jimbo123

The question is what constitutes “Natural Born”?


12 posted on 01/05/2016 4:15:34 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Don Corleone
The question is what constitutes "Natural Born"?

The most logical reading of that term is someone who is a citizen by virtue of their birth, as opposed to a naturalized citizen. By US law, a person is a citizen at birth if, A) they are born on US soil (including US territories, military bases or embassies); or B) they are born to at least one parent who is a US citizen. There are people who will argue that NBC refers ONLY to those born on US soil to 2 US citizen parents, but no court has ever upheld that definition, so that is their own opinion, not fact.

16 posted on 01/05/2016 4:25:47 PM PST by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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