Honest to god, I don’t get these people who claim it is all so important that the members put a phrase in when some of the same members took it out.
I have a person on another thread that is arguing just that. Who cares if James Madison took it out and George Washington signed it into law ...as well as other Founding Fathers.
We don’t know why they took it out. BUT THEY DID.
I venture to say it is MANY of people who put it in turned around AND TOOK IT OUT.
To me, that means they didn’t want it there for whatever reason.
The phrase in the 1790 Act was “considered as a natural born citizen.” In other words, ‘as if they were natural born.’ The phrase takes four words to say the exact same thing is expressed by the one word: “naturalized.” It doesn’t mean that they actually WERE natural born. It’s that they will be treated that way by the statute.
And of course, mere statute cannot amend the Constitution.
Back when schools taught kids, we learned you had to be born on US soil. Common sense why this is important.
All the minutia of why this simple idea doesn’t apply to Cruz, or Obama, or millions of other foreign born who had a former US citizen parent, is the kind of insane political double speak that we are sick and tired of.
And sure, the hard Cruz supporters don’t care, but this crap isn’t exactly helping his alleged “outsider” facade.
Yeah...because Congress cannot dictate Natural Law.
not a reference to Natural Law anywhere in this guy’s screed.
I guess anything that helps them makes their case and no critical review of their own information will be done.