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To: Jude in WV
If my husband and I (both US citizens) conceive a child...when that child is born, (no matter where), he is born a citizen of the US.

A citizen, not a Natural Born Citizen.

In an article written by William Safire back in 1987 lists people not eligible. He lists Connecticut's Senator Lowell Weicker was NOT eligible because he was born (of American parents) in Paris. New Hampshire Governor John Sununu also is NOT eligible. He didn't even attempt to include an anchor baby (born on American soil with alien parents) into the discussion because he knew that would not fly back then.

Safire wanted to amend the Constitution to allow naturalized citizens to be eligible. The discussion has been so bastardized recently but back in 1987 they knew better.

ESSAY; The Constitution's Flaw

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/06/opinion/essay-the-constitution-s-flaw.html

I want to be a delegate to the next Constitutional Convention (Con Con II). Here's my platform: amend the Constitution to make it possible for naturalized citizens to become President or Vice President of the United States.

SNIP

That means Minnesota Senator Rudy Boschwitz is blocked from advancement because he was born in Berlin, and Connecticut's Senator Lowell Weicker because he was born (of American parents) in Paris. New Hampshire Governor John Sununu, whose U.S. parents were in Havana when he was born, and Vermont's Governor Madeleine Kunin, born in Zurich and naturalized 40 years ago, can forget about higher office.

41 posted on 09/14/2012 7:43:48 PM PDT by Smokeyblue
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To: Smokeyblue

And the children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as Natural Born Citizens.
1st Congress March 26, 1790.

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=001/llsl001.db&recNum=227


54 posted on 09/14/2012 7:57:28 PM PDT by Jude in WV
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To: Smokeyblue

A citizen at birth IS a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN!

There are only two classes of Citizenship:

Natural Born

Naturalized


56 posted on 09/14/2012 8:00:12 PM PDT by Kansas58
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