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To: Mr Rogers
Correct. And thus Jefferson didn’t need a grandfather clause. Like all the original natural born subjects who remained in the new country, he was automatically considered a natural born citizen of the new country.

According to accepted, widely known history books written prior to 2007, who is recorded as being the last President under the grandfather clause, and who is recorded as being the first natural born President, Mr. Rogers?

You're lawyering and creating plausible motivation and it works to a point, then you collide with recorded history.

You just did.

868 posted on 03/10/2013 4:37:17 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

We never had a ‘grandfathered’ President, since they all were born in the USA or original colonies. Remember, the clause allowed ANYONE WHO WAS A CITIZEN at the time the Constitution was adopted to become President. CITIZEN includes naturalized citizens.

There was no need for a grandfather clause for Washington. All who were natural born subjects became natural born citizens automatically, with the treaty signed in 1783 although US courts held the date to be 4 July 1776.

This isn’t open for dispute. It was involved in multiple inheritance cases. I’m sorry you have believed otherwise, but no court from early America agreed with you. You are completely wrong on the facts.


873 posted on 03/10/2013 4:51:44 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (America is becoming California, and California is becoming Detroit. Detroit is already hell.)
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