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  • Defining Natural-Born Citizen

    06/30/2009 9:32:47 AM PDT · by wbones8765 · 99 replies · 3,354+ views
    The Federalist Blog ^ | 11/18/2008 | P. A. Madison
    What might the phrase “natural-born citizen” of the United States imply under the U.S. Constitution? The phrase has always been obscure due to the lack of any single authoritative source to confer in order to understand the condition of citizenship the phrase recognizes. Learning what the phrase might have meant following the Declaration of Independence, and the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, requires detective work. As with all detective work, eliminating the usual suspects from the beginning goes a long way in quickly solving a case. What Natural-Born Citizen Could Not Mean Could a natural-born citizen simply mean citizenship due...