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To: patriotgal1787

The major precedent is against you. Although Vice President and President had an Irish father (a well known fact at the time) nobody was curious enough to ask him if the father was a citizen at the time of Arthur’s birth. Why not? You have two choices: either people in 1880 were idiots compared to current Americans (yeah, right) or they didn’t think this issue had any bearing on Arthur’s eligibility.


3 posted on 04/27/2011 8:30:10 AM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: Captain Kirk
Why did the Founding Fathers change the original language of the presidential eligibility requirement from "born a Citizen" to "No person except a natural born Citizen"?

Answer the question.

36 posted on 04/27/2011 9:36:40 AM PDT by Godebert
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