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To: sunrise_sunset
It was put there to weed out possibilities of foreign influence.

Like being married to a Slovenian?

11 posted on 01/08/2016 7:22:20 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto

The purpose of Article II, Section I clause 5 was to prevent undue foreign influence on the office of the presidency, PARTICULARLY thru a father owing allegiance to a foreign sovereignty. The framers took their definition for NBC from Emmerich De Vattel’s Law of Nations, the 212th paragraph of which was quoted in it’s entirety in the 1814 Venus Merchantman decision. The Law of Nations is referred to in Article I of the constitution. That definition referred to an NBC as being born of two citizen parents and born on the soil of the nation. That definition was cited in the 1868 case of Minor vs Hapersett, and Wong Kim Ark vs US. De Vattel has been cited and accepted in dozens of SCOTUS and federal lower court rulings. The framers were patriarchs who believed that the citizenship of the children followed the citizenship of the father.


51 posted on 01/08/2016 8:39:19 AM PST by DMZFrank
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