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To: Windflier
The Framers' drew on Emmer De Vattel's definition of Natural Born Citizen (from his famous work, "Law of Nations") when they wrote it into our Constitution. It was the highest and securest bar they could place on the office of president, to prevent usurpation by someone with divided loyalties.

Yes, but they didn't have a time machine to zoom forward to use the 19th Century English edition like so many here claim.

Also, your claim that a minor can have his citizenship taken away from him also has no backing. In fact, it's contraindicated by legal precedent, to my knowledge.

99 posted on 05/08/2011 10:20:56 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Gondring
In fact, it's contraindicated by legal precedent, to my knowledge.

Legal precedent, for those of us who can entertain more than a single thought, has been reversed many times, over time, by the Supreme Courts themselves.

156 posted on 05/08/2011 12:03:41 PM PDT by Publius6961 (There has Never been a "Tax On The Rich" that has not reached the middle class)
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