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To: Hugin

All that matters is... What was the definition of “natural born” when the phrase was used in the Constitution. Case law is meaningless here. We are NOT interpreting here, we are simply defining words. Natural born is born in the country to two parents whom are citizens. Anything else requires statute to clarify, and is therefore NOT natural born.


34 posted on 02/24/2015 9:31:09 PM PST by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can STILL go straight to hell.)
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To: HMS Surprise

“What was the definition of “natural born” when the phrase was used in the Constitution”

Between 1785 and 1791 the term natural born citizen and natural born subject were used interchangeably by the Massachusetts legislature.


115 posted on 02/26/2015 8:42:55 PM PST by 4Zoltan
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