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240 posted on 12/05/2009 7:26:04 PM PST by narses ('in an odd way this is cheering news!'.)
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To: narses

My guess is that the term “natural born citizen” is not defined in the Constitution because the definition was commonly understood. How likely is it that a definition used by a Swiss philosopher, who’s work was not readily available to the average guy in Colonial America, would trump the British definition that the colonists had lived with? Not likely IMHO, particularly since there doesn’t seem to be much contemporaneous discussion of the issue that has been passed down to us.


269 posted on 12/06/2009 11:01:10 AM PST by lucysmom
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