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To: so_real
Unlike you, however, I am not adding into the ruling a bridge from "alien" to POTUS that does not exist.

No, you're adding a third class of citizen which doesn't exist. As Justice Gray pointed out in his decision the law recognizes two classes of citizenship - citizen at birt or naturalized citizen. If Obama was born in Hawaii then he's a citizen at birth, AKA natural born citizen, and then is eligible to be president. It's all there in the decision itself.

As I've stated before, in 1898 going from "alien" to "citizen" was a tremendous leap, and not without justifiable dissent.

Dissent all you want but that doesn't change the decision of the court as expressed in the majority opinion.

Going from "alien" to POTUS was inconceivable, and certainly *was not* the question presented by record to the Court.

The question was what constitutes a natural born citizen, AKA citizen at birth. And the court answered that.

240 posted on 12/18/2008 9:51:47 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

You are glued the position that “citizen at birth” equates to “natural born citizen”. After all, they both have a derivative of the word “born” in them. Oh wait. “Naturalized citizen” and “natural born citizen” both contain a derivative of “natural”! They must be equal too! The usurpers of the world thank you for being a useful idiot.


248 posted on 12/18/2008 12:36:21 PM PST by so_real
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