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To: Lurking Libertarian
Under the 14th Amendment, if Obama was born in Hawaii, he was a natural-born citizen.

The 14th Amendment has NOTHING to do with the definition of "natural-born citizen" and the phrase does not even appear in the Amendment. The 14th did not define, re-define, clarify, or in any way whatsoever alter the meaning of "natural-born citizen" as used in the main body of the United States Constitution.

69 posted on 06/19/2009 4:46:58 PM PDT by John Valentine
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To: John Valentine
The Supreme Court ruled in Wong Kim Ark that thereare only two kinds of citizens: Naturalized, and natural-born. If Obama was born in Hawaii, he was natural born. In any event, the point of my post was that even if Obama had become an Indonesian citizen, he would not have lost his U.S. citizenship.
70 posted on 06/19/2009 4:54:21 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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