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To: AmericanVictory
Under your analysis, the intent of the Framers in using the phrase "natural born citizen" in Article II does not matter. Do you believe that?

Of course it matters. That's not the question. The question needs to be understood as, what did they mean?. My contention is that they meant no more and no less that citizenship by birth. Otherwise they would have needed to define the distinction, and they did not.

40 posted on 01/16/2016 5:50:24 PM PST by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: John Valentine

Where is there any commentary by a Framer, or anyone who knew them, that says that that is all they meant, as opposed, say, to Jay’s concern in his famous letter to Washington, about dual allegiance?


55 posted on 01/16/2016 6:00:38 PM PST by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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