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To: Josephat
"I think, maybe, Jindal knows that he is not a Natural Born Citizen and is taking this action to bring the issue to the fore. He seems like a genuinely good man and it is unfortunate that he does not qualify."

He's a great man. How does he not "qualify"? He was born in America.

214 posted on 05/07/2011 10:01:11 PM PDT by NoRedTape
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To: NoRedTape
Please read the following and think about it before you respond:

If the Founders took Natural Born Citizen to mean just anyone born on American soil, why did they differentiate natural born from mere citizen when they wrote the Constitution? ... Prior to the fourteenth amendment, the Constitution discerns at least three types of citizenship, only one of which is naturalized citizenship. One is natural born citizenship (parents who are citizens and born on American soil, and mere citizenship derived from being born on American soil. A mere citizen can be born with dividied citizenship/dividied loyalties; a natural born citizen will not be born with divided citizenship since both parents are American citizens at the child's birth, natural born being derived in the special case of president and vice president from their parents as citizens of America and born on American soil.

215 posted on 05/07/2011 10:19:00 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: NoRedTape

Hia parents were not citizens at the time of his birth.


228 posted on 05/08/2011 4:18:39 AM PDT by Josephat
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