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To: Frantzie

I wonder if she knows the requirements for a natural born citizen circa 1961. I also wonder if she understands the legal question is far more than his birth. It also includes was his mother able to confer citizenship at that time. Was he adopted before age of 5? Did he have Indonesian citizenship? All can change his status. It is not simply was he born in Hawaii, but all the circumstances combined that make the decision on natural born citizenship.


140 posted on 07/27/2009 8:29:17 PM PDT by wbones8765 ("Give me liberty or give me death")
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To: wbones8765
I wonder if she knows the requirements for a natural born citizen circa 1961

Those have not changed since The Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth. That's the day the Constitution was signed and passed by the Constitutional convention.

But if you prefer the ratification date that was: The Twenty first Day of June in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty eight and of the Independence of the United States of America the Thirteenth.

There having been no amendments changing the defintion, it means what it meant when written, adopted and ratified in 1787-1788.

It also includes was his mother able to confer citizenship at that time. Was he adopted before age of 5? Did he have Indonesian citizenship? All can change his status. It is not simply was he born in Hawaii, but all the circumstances combined that make the decision on natural born citizenship.

Actually none of those matter, IF he was born in Hawaii, for his status as a Natural born citizen. The nationality of his father OTOH, may matter a lot. But that is a subject for courts, not medical bureaucrats.

569 posted on 07/28/2009 7:49:38 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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