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To: worst-case scenario; Retired Intelligence Officer

> “The *Constitution of the United States* covers this issue in the 14th Amendment.”

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No, the 14th only addressed citizenship by birth in country, which is not the same as “Natual Born” citizenship.

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> “If Jindal was born in the United States, he is a citizen. It does not matter what citizenship status his parents hold.”

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Yes, he is a citizen by birth, but not a “Natural Born” citizen as defined at the time that the term was inserted into article one of the constitution.

Perhaps that is too difficult for you to grasp?


997 posted on 11/17/2010 3:52:06 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: editor-surveyor

“No, the 14th only addressed citizenship by birth in country, which is not the same as “Natual Born” citizenship.”

Yes, it is the same. If you are born a US citizen, you are a natural-born citizen of the US.

In United States v. Rhodes (1866), Mr. Justice Swayne, sitting in the Circuit Court, said:
All persons born in the allegiance of the King are natural-born subjects, and all persons born in the allegiance of the United States are natural-born citizens. Birth and allegiance go together. Such is the rule of the common law, and it is the common law of this country, as well as of England.


1,013 posted on 11/17/2010 6:06:30 PM PST by WOSG (OPERATION RESTORE AMERICAN FREEDOM - NOVEMBER, 2010 - DO YOUR PART!)
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