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To: ml/nj
You should be able to answer this question, but I guess it would render hours of your smoke blowing irrelevant.

It's much more amusing watching you try and do it.

Jefferson and his contemporaries were not natural-born citizens as understood by themselves, the Framers.

Which is what I said, and which you found so amusing. The Constitution identifies two classes of citizens - natural born and naturalized. If you are not one then you are, by definition, the other. The Founders were naturalized because they became citizens of the United States by law when the country was established. Knowing this, they inserted the one exception to the natural-born citizen requirement. Otherwise nobody would qualify.

Now quick, who was the last U.S. president elected under this clause?

478 posted on 03/18/2009 9:48:02 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
Jefferson and his contemporaries were not natural-born citizens as understood by themselves, the Framers.

Which is what I said, and which you found so amusing.

No. Actually, you did not. You continue to confuse the adjectives natural born and native-born, which would be amusing if it weren't annoying. I have previously posted and analyzed the Oxford English Dictionary entries for these phrases. And you basically said that the OED is irrelevant and you know better that these phrases both mean the same thing which is nothing.

ML/NJ

483 posted on 03/18/2009 10:03:20 AM PDT by ml/nj
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