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Bingham’s statement does not trump the federal statute or the 14th Amendment. That’s a fact. Bingham’s statement is not the law.

Why can’t you all realize that the nationality law tells you who is a natural born citizen by defining who is a citizen at birth?

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/8/1401.html

“The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth:
(a) a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof; ... “

What we have here is question of definition.

Article II - The Executive Branch, Section 1
"No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President"

My assertion is that the framers were explicit and carefully chose the words "Natural Born Citizen" as opposed to just citizen as used elsewhere in the Constitution. Note the second part of the clause, "or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution", which clearly means that they wanted to include themselves to eligible because some of the framers had foreign born parents. They unquestionably thought this through.

The term "natural Born" didn't need defining, at the time, as it was considered common knowledge.

Benjamin Franklin's (a signer of our Constitution) letter to Charles W.F. Dumas, December 1775
"I am much obliged by the kind present you have made us of your edition of Vattel. It came to us in good season, when the circumstances of a rising state make it necessary frequently to consult the Law of Nations. Accordingly, that copy which I kept (after depositing one in our own public library here, and send the other to the College of Massachusetts Bay, as you directed) has been continually in the hands of the members of our congress, now sitting, who are much pleased with your notes and preface, and have entertained a high and just esteem for their author"?

It has been over 200 years and in that time "we the people" have forgotten our contract and its definitions and now are making excuses for political agenda. If we have no Constitution we have no country. This is a sad state of affairs for our nation and our country is soon to be lost.

I ask that you review these links. They are helpful in defining "Natural Born".

http://thelibertypole.ning.com/forum/topics/vatells-law-of-nations-and-our

http://thelibertypole.ning.com/forum/topics/the-definition-of-natural-born