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To: Godebert

Good stuff to take to the next birther meeting in your mother’s basement.

Now where does it say in the US CONSTITUTION that both parents have to be citizens for their child to be a Natural Born Citizen?

The links you provided are worthless since they are not US LAW, but guidelines that are speculated on that the Founding Fathers used. What isn’t explicitly spelled out in the Constitution can be either (1) interpreted to various opinions or (2) clarified by law.

The Constitution doesn’t define “Natural Born Citizen”, but Congress has used it’s statutory authority to clarify which it did by defining a Citizen at Birth vrs a Naturalized Citizen (it’s clear Levin misspoke at :18 because if you listen to the actual length, he’s saying Cruz is a Natural Born Citizen). Based on the law in effect at the time of Cruz’s birth, he was a Citizen at Birth of the United States through his mother, who had met the requirements for her children to qualify as NBC. The place of his birth is a non-factor. Ted Cruz never had to be “naturalized”, he was a Citizen at Birth.

Like Levin though, I’m bored. Go bother someone else with your birther crap.


172 posted on 08/08/2015 1:45:00 PM PDT by parksstp (Cruz it or lose it. Ahead with Ted. 2016)
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To: parksstp
The Constitution isn't a dictionary. There was only ONE definition of natural born Citizen at the time the founders drafted the Constitution. That definition is found in the Law of Nations.
173 posted on 08/08/2015 2:26:58 PM PDT by Godebert
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To: parksstp
Citizenship Terms Used in the U.S. Constitution - The 5 Terms Defined & Some Legal Reference to Same
174 posted on 08/08/2015 2:33:02 PM PDT by Godebert
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To: parksstp
Founder and Historian David Ramsay Defined Natural Born Citizenship in 1789
176 posted on 08/08/2015 2:47:19 PM PDT by Godebert
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To: parksstp
Now where does it say in the US CONSTITUTION that both parents have to be citizens for their child to be a Natural Born Citizen?

Where in the US CONSTITUTION does it say "Arms" means guns?

Oh, and by the way, please give up on the "both Parents" crap. The mother's citizenship was irrelevant. Just as both wife and children inherit a husband's name, so too do they inherit his citizenship. The mother being an American citizenship is automatic if she is married to an American Husband. It becomes "both parents" regardless.

A woman couldn't pass on citizenship separately until 1922.

183 posted on 08/08/2015 3:51:22 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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