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To: Elderberry
I don't think The World Book Encyclopedia is an authoritative source for constitutional law.

"Born in the United States"? Has that ever been considered a requirement provided both parents were US citizens? What if they were vacationing in Canada when the child was born, or serving as diplomats?

I think the only President before Soetoro whose eligibility was seriously questioned was Chester Alan Arthur--reportedly born in Vermont but some claimed he had been born a few miles to the north in Quebec, and his father was not a US citizen at the time of his birth. But it was generally accepted that he had been born in Vermont (before it became a People's Republic).

21 posted on 12/02/2017 5:38:53 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

Since the 70’s I firmly believed my brother could not be president cause he was born in another country.


59 posted on 12/02/2017 9:31:06 PM PST by CJ Wolf (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World)
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To: Verginius Rufus

Read my #73 below. The SR 511 committee lays it all out. NBC = born in US of two US citizen parents.


74 posted on 12/03/2017 6:08:05 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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