[Servant of the Cross]

"It is not necessary that a man should be born in this country, to be 'a natural born citizen.' It is only requisite that he should be a citizen by birth, and that is the case with all the children of citizens who have ever resided in this country, though born in a foreign country." - James Bayard, A Brief Exposition of the Constitution of the United States (1833)

This was part of Bayard's discussion of qualifications to be President and Presidential eligibility.

Bayard's exposition of the Constitution was read and approved by the Great Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Marshall, by the legendary Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, and by the famous Chancellor James Kent, as well as other legal experts of the early United States.

[MeganC]

Bayard’s opinion renders moot the provison of ‘natural born citizen’ with the same effect that Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists created the ‘separation of church and state’ as it is used by secularists in the modern day.

Both are extraconstitutional arguments devoid of Constitutional authority.

You may as well tell me how the Bible approves of gay marriage because some lesbian college professor said so.

[xzins]

From James Bayard, A Brief Exposition on the Constitution. Bayard was a Senator and the son of Sen James Bayard (elder), who was called the high priest of the Constitution. See the section on "native citizenship", especially the end.

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