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To: GreenLanternCorps

There is a definition somewhere here of a natural born citizen that requires both parents to be US citizens.


233 posted on 07/28/2009 7:35:03 AM PDT by antisocial (Texas SCV - Deo Vindice)
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To: antisocial

That is a definition, but it is probably not the correct definition. Until Barack Obama ran for President, every definition of US citizen I ever ran across only mentioned two catagories:

Natural born citizens, who got their citizenship at birth

Naturalized citizens who got it after they were born.

The both parents must be US citizens definition appears to come from a French legal text and is, to me, not relavent.

I’m a strict constructionist. The plain meaning of “natural born” means having that condition at birth. If someone is described as a natural born athlete, it means they were born that way. It does not mean that both of their parents were athletes and that they were born in a stadium.


383 posted on 07/28/2009 4:03:25 PM PDT by GreenLanternCorps ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
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