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To: ml/nj
"So who isn't a "fraud" to your way of thinking? Is William Rawle (A View of the Constitution of the United States -1829) a fraud too? The whole NBC thing is hardly as clear cut as some would like to think."

There was only one definition of natural born Citizen at the time the Constitution was written, and that was found in Vattel's Law of Nations.

Founder and Historian David Ramsay Defines Natural Born Citizen in 1789 forty years before the leftist Pennsylvanian Quaker and abolitionist William Rawles opined on the subject.

Four Supreme Court Cases Define Natural Born Citizen

Is Being a Born Citizen of the United States of Sufficient Citizenship Status to be President of the United States and Commander in Chief of Our Military? The Founders and Framers Emphatically Decided It Was Not!

90 posted on 01/03/2012 5:29:54 AM PST by Godebert
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To: Godebert
There was only one definition of natural born Citizen at the time the Constitution was written

While I might agree with you that the Vattel concept was what the Framers had in mind, you are either dreaming or ignorant of the other usage examples including ones in England and in the Colonies. Any court could reasonably decide this issue however they wanted to decide it.

ML/NJ

93 posted on 01/03/2012 6:11:38 AM PST by ml/nj
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