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To: trumandogz; ConservativeMind; stockpirate
Now, can you find something in the Constitution, Legislation or Case Law that defines Natural Born Citizen?

How about 150 years of Presidential precedent during which every President was a living breathing definition of a Natural Born Citizen [except one who hid his past and burned his papers because he knew he wasn't one]. Will that suffice???

116 posted on 12/23/2008 4:23:57 PM PST by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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To: Uncle Chip; trumandogz; mlo

150 YEARS OF PRESIDENTIAL PRECEDENT during which EVERY PRESIDENT was a LIVING BREATHING definition of a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN!!

Great post Uncle Chip, and bears repeating!


130 posted on 12/23/2008 5:18:04 PM PST by Gemsbok (If wishes were horses, than beggars would ride.)
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To: Uncle Chip
"How about 150 years of Presidential precedent during which every President was a living breathing definition of a Natural Born Citizen [except one who hid his past and burned his papers because he knew he wasn't one]. Will that suffice???"

No. They also happened to all be white males. Does that mean the constitution requires them to be white males?

146 posted on 12/23/2008 6:55:23 PM PST by mlo
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To: Uncle Chip
"How about 150 years of Presidential precedent during which every President was a living breathing definition of a Natural Born Citizen [except one who hid his past and burned his papers because he knew he wasn't one]. Will that suffice???"

What is this 'living breathing' definition? Is it the one where you must be born of two US citizen parents on US soil? Or just born a citizen? Or did your citizen parents have to be native born, or what? Because I have seen so many different assertions about what exactly that means that there isn't any longer a clear 'living breathing' definition that can be referenced - now you need to quote the definition so people will know which one you mean. But let's start with the strictest one that has been seriously suggested: born on US soil to two US citizen parents and being subject to no other sovereignty. Is that the one you mean? [full disclosure: I do not support that definition, in case there is anybody at all remaining on FR who didn't know that.]

171 posted on 12/23/2008 8:14:26 PM PST by calenel (The Democratic Party is a Criminal Enterprise. It is the Socialist Mafia.)
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To: Uncle Chip
Can you show me where the previous 42 men that have been President have submitted conclusive proof that they were in fact natural born citizens?

Is there a place in the National Archives that holds the original 42 birth certificates?

231 posted on 12/23/2008 10:39:15 PM PST by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at I00 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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