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To: BladeBryan
You’ve been had. “Natural born citizen. Persons who are born within the jurisdiction of a national government, i.e. in its territorial limits, or those born of citizens temporarily residing abroad.” — /Black’s Law Dictionary/, Sixth edition.

All that proves is that Black's law Dictionary is wrong. :) "Natural Born Citizen" is a term of art in the context of Article II, and it most certainly does NOT mean what you're Black's definition says, and that is easy to prove. Neither Indians nor Slaves gained any sort of citizenship by being "born within the jurisdiction of a national government."

Legal Jargon is fine, but when it conflicts with actual facts, it needs to be slapped down hard because it is misleading.

34 posted on 06/21/2011 6:18:24 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Obama hides behind the Grass Skirts of Hawaiian Bureaucrats.)
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To: DiogenesLamp; piytar

It appears, from the n00b poster’s posting history, that to mislead/knit chaos is the poster’s intent. When a poster slaps a fellow freeper with a clearly erroneous definition (Black’s definition cannot be the most accurate, for the reason you so clearly identified), you know you’re dealing with a dissembler.


42 posted on 06/21/2011 8:33:52 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: DiogenesLamp

“All that proves is that Black’s law Dictionary is wrong.All that proves is that Black’s law Dictionary is wrong.”

Let me guess: You did not say one word about Blacks having it wrong until you needed reasons why Barack Obama cannot be president. I can respect contrarians, but not people who start telling the rules different when then don’t like who is winning.

“Legal Jargon is fine, but when it conflicts with actual facts, it needs to be slapped down hard because it is misleading.”

That’s not what you did. None of the eligibility deniers spoke up when what was at stake was the principle.


50 posted on 06/21/2011 10:35:25 AM PDT by BladeBryan
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