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To: Diego1618

“Absolutely incorrect!”

St. George Tucker:

“That provision in the constitution which requires that the president shall be a native-born citizen (unless he were a citizen of the United States when the constitution was adopted,) is a happy means of security against foreign influence, which, wherever it is capable of being exerted, is to be dreaded more than the plague.” View of the Constitution of the United States with Selected Writings [1803]

James Kent:

“The Constitution requires (a) that the President shall be a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, and that he shall have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and shall have been fourteen years a resident within the United States. Considering the greatness of the trust, and that this department is the ultimately efficient executive power in government, these restrictions will not appear altogether useless or unimportant. As the President is required to be a native citizen of the United States, ambitious foreigners cannot intrigue for the office, and the qualification of birth cuts off all those inducements from abroad to corruption, negotiation, and war” Commentaries on American Law (1826)

Minor v. Happersett () 100 U.S. 1

“The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.”

Luria v. United States - 231 U.S. 9 (1913)

“Under our Constitution, a naturalized citizen stands on an equal footing with the native citizen in all respects save that of eligibility to the Presidency. Minor v. Happersett, 21 Wall. 162, 88 U. S. 165; Elk v. Wilkins, 112 U. S. 94, 112 U. S. 101; Osborn v. Bank of United States, 9 Wheat. 738, 22 U. S. 827.

Can you cite any court causes where the court said that native born and natural born are different or that the meaning changed between the Founding era and today?


733 posted on 09/02/2013 12:11:48 PM PDT by 4Zoltan
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To: 4Zoltan; Diego1618
Can you cite any court causes where the court said that native born and natural born are different or that the meaning changed between the Founding era and today?

Kawakita v. United States, 1952

Duel national Kawakita who was stripped of his US native born citizenship.

737 posted on 09/02/2013 12:49:12 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: 4Zoltan
Can you cite any court causes where the court said that native born and natural born are different

You just did -- Minor vs Happersett.

740 posted on 09/02/2013 1:35:29 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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