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Had it passed, it would have been silly and irrelevant. That's because military brats, like other children born to Americans abroad, are natural born citizens.

Oddly enough that is exactly opposite to what I was taught as a wee lad matriculating on a US Marine Corps base.

We were told explicitly that those of us born overseas could not qualify to be president.

FWIW, I didn't think it was fair then, I don't think its fair now, but I do think (based on a LOT of research in the past few years) that it is the Founding Fathers' intent.

The President has to have no hint of divided loyalties.

[cynwoody]

Oddly enough that is exactly opposite to what I was taught as a wee lad matriculating on a US Marine Corps base.

We were told explicitly that those of us born overseas could not qualify to be president.

Justice Ginsburg disagrees. During the oral arguments in Nguyen v. INS, they argued over naturalized vs natural born. Ginsburg remarked:

QUESTION: Miss Davis, may we go back a few steps because you said something that surprised me. I know that the Solicitor General took the line in its brief that there are only two kinds of citizens -- born in the United States, and everybody else for constitutional purposes is naturalized.

My grandson was born in Paris of U.S. citizen parents. I had never considered him a naturalized citizen of the United States, but is that his correct status?
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QUESTION: There is a debate over whether my grandson is a natural born citizen. I think he is.
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