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To: Windflier
Clearly, this matter was vitally important to the Framers, and to every Court and Congress since. It will be important in this case, too.

Doesn't help at all, in fact it ignores the question. The important matter is how one defines the difference, if difference there be, between citizen at birth and natural born citizen. I understand the difference between a person born a citizen of the U.S. and someone naturalized as a citizen. I do not understand where the distinction between citizen at birth, the term used by U.S. law and Supreme Court decisions, and natural borth citizen is defined. The Constitution doesn't do it. What does?

475 posted on 12/04/2008 5:06:58 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
Doesn't help at all, in fact it ignores the question. The important matter is how one defines the difference, if difference there be, between citizen at birth and natural born citizen... The Constitution doesn't do it. What does?

Listen friend. If you honestly want to know the answer to your questions as badly as you're pretending, then you'd find the answers yourself, or consult someone other than an ordinary citizen expressing his personal views on a website.

I admitted to you three posts back that I may have spoken in error, but you continue to try to back me into a corner over this legal question.

You know I'm not a legal scholar, and it's quite possible that you aren't either, so what's your real intention here?

I have my opinion, however it was formed. I'm not a walking encyclopedia of legal facts, and don't have every reference I've read to hand, nor have I committed their locations to memory. I've read what I've read, and am speaking as frankly and truthfully as I can, with what I've digested.

492 posted on 12/04/2008 5:51:41 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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