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To: Rona_Badger

Yes. Any citizen from birth meeting the age AND residence requirements. There is no need to amend anything because anyone who is born a citizen is a natural born citizen not a naturalized citizen.


261 posted on 05/06/2012 6:47:47 PM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to DC to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: allmendream
This is sort of OT, but I'm still curious about your thought processes (since you don't have actual proof of the meaning of the term natural born citizen as was intended when written):

When Jefferson composed the phrase: "...that all men are created equal..." do you think he meant to include women? Or, at the time, did he consider women unequal to men? Why should we take his meaning of men to include women?

If he meant to include women, why wasn't the term "humans" or "people" used instead? Franklin tweaked Jefferson's wording for the final DOI and so he might have thought to include women, but he didn't either.

In 1776, were women equal to men in every regard? No. So do you agree that these Framers were very specific in choosing their words for these important documents?

285 posted on 05/07/2012 11:04:46 AM PDT by Rona Badger (Heeds the Calling Wind)
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