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To: Kaslin
Which makes him a natural born US Citizen.

Before 2008 you couldn't find 6 people that agreed with that. I was always taught that NBC required two citizen parents, but we have grown so much in our multicultural society that a citizen of the world is much more to our liking.

Don't bother posting tons of legal opinions, none of them matter unless and until the SC rules and then it still won't matter. Two citizen parents now and forever.

95 posted on 11/28/2015 3:15:39 PM PST by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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To: itsahoot

When I was a schoolboy the term natural born was used often, we might tell a schoolmate that he was a “natural born” horseshoe pitcher which meant that he could not have been otherwise, he was born to pitch horseshoes. That is the way the term was explained to me in school, a “natural born” citizen was one whose citizenship could not be challenged in any way, he was the child of two parents who were American citizens at the time of his birth and he was born on American soil and had no claim to citizenship in any other country. Nowadays the term is never heard except in reference to the eligibility to be POTUS and some people seem to have no idea whatsoever of its original meaning and some even seem to think that congress can legislate whether someone is a natural born citizen. Anyone who is a citizen due to falling under a piece of legislation CANNOT be a natural born citizen because congress only has the power to legislate concerning NATURALIZATION, not natural born citizenship. It would appear that the reason the constitution does not define the term natural born is that it would have been considered at the time to be as absurd as defining what a human being is.


103 posted on 11/28/2015 7:16:36 PM PST by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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