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To: allmendream
John Jay wrote to George Washington:

“Permit me to hint, whether it would be wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expressly that the Commander in Chief of the American army shall not be given to nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen.”

At the date of this letter dated 25 July 1787 the State of Virginia regarded the children of “foreigners” as also being foreigners or aliens. The children of Aliens bor in Virginia were not granted citizenship in Virginia or thereby United States citizenship in 1787. This circumstance occurred because Thomas Jefferson wrote the new legal code of Virginia to exclude the influence of foreigners or aliens in the new government.

Therefore, your accusation of dishonesty is manifestly wrong and deserves to be retracted.

268 posted on 05/06/2012 8:44:33 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: WhiskeyX

You said his letter warned against the children of foreigners. Yet you didn’t include the text. Because he did no such thing.

You show no reticence in posting a wall of text that doesn’t actually say what you want it to.

Yet you didn’t include the verbiage in order to claim it said what it did not. If that is what you need to do to try to make a point, what is the point?


270 posted on 05/06/2012 10:01:24 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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