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To: wndawmn666
He is refusing to acknowledge that the 14th Amendment DEFINES the term ‘citizen of the United States’ as someone BORN or NATURALIZED in the United States AND subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

You miss the point that the definition under the 14th Amendment is not exclusive. Someone can be a citizen (even a natural-born citizen) and not be born in the US or be naturalized. But, that's beside the point.

NONE of them can be President because they are ALL ‘only’ citizens of the United States.

Arnie is a naturalized citizen, so he cannot be President. Obama and Ark were citizens at birth, so they can. Pretty simple, actually.

A naturalized citizen of the United States, regardless of how they came about their citizenship, can ONLY serve as Senator or Representative. Only a natural born citizen can be President.

Fixed your statement to make it correct.

Wong Kim Ark can’t be President because he was born on US soil to two foreign parents. He is ONLY a US citizen.

Barack Obama can’t be President because he was born on US soil to ONE foreign parent. He is ONLY a US citizen.

Can you show where your claims are supported in the Constitution, Federal law or case law?

587 posted on 12/05/2008 10:24:32 AM PST by Citizen Blade (What would Ronald Reagan do?)
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To: Citizen Blade

Barack Obama is afforded the same ‘type’ of citizenship as Wong Kim Ark and as Arnold.

They are all recognized as citizens of the United States.

There are two types of citizens recognized in the Constituion:

Natural born citizens of the US (can be President)
Citizens of the US (cannot be President)

This is quote from FactCheck.org:

“When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children”

Read the last line. THAT SAME ACT GOVERNED THE STATUS OF OBAMA SR.’S CHILDREN’. Barack Obama Sr.’s children were GOVERNED by the British Nationality Act of 1948.

Barack was born a citizen of the United States and a citizen of the United Kingdom.

He is NOT a natural born citizen.


588 posted on 12/05/2008 10:32:22 AM PST by wndawmn666
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