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To: PghBaldy
I seriously doubt the Framers intended the child of an alien and a citizen to be considered “natural born.”

What the framers intended (and they said so) was to prevent the British from running candidates, so to keep the Crown from undo-ing the revolution at the ballot box. So, they limited the POTUS (curiously, no other positions) to be men that were either already here when the Constitution was ratified, or were born here. It was explicitly intended to keep out the Brits. But it also serves to keep out those others that might have divided loyalties.

143 posted on 08/03/2010 7:32:18 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Ramius

Yes, that is right.


167 posted on 08/03/2010 9:27:58 PM PDT by PghBaldy (Like the Ft Hood Killer, James Earl Ray was just stressed when he killed MLK Jr.)
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