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To: edge919

This is true, but not completely true. Citizens at birth CAN be president, just not all — only the ones who are born in the country to citizen parents.


If that were true, the Supreme Court would have ruled on Obama’s eligibility. They haven’t and it is highly doubtful that they ever will. Nowhere in the Constitution does it mention two parents being required to qualify as a Citizen at birth. The law of the land clearly says “Born in the United States.”


80 posted on 09/21/2010 3:34:36 PM PDT by jamese777
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To: jamese777
If that were true, the Supreme Court would have ruled on Obama’s eligibility.

Sorry, but this is a logical fallacy. The cases presented were rejected by lower courts because of standing. There's no evidence that any members of the Supreme Court reviewed anything beyond that argument.

Nowhere in the Constitution does it mention two parents being required to qualify as a Citizen at birth.

Sorry, but technically this is wrong. The preamble to the Constitution acknowledges that our country was established by the people of the United States for themselves and their posterity. Minor talks about this too. As a right, citizenship was reserved for the children of citizens. Congress was given the constitutional power to naturalize anyone else who wanted to be citizens, including their wives and children (which Minor also explains).

The law of the land clearly says “Born in the United States.”

What 'law'?? You're imagining things again. The Supreme Court said the requirement for president was defined in common law OUTSIDE of the constitution, expressed solely as the children in the country of parents who were its citizens.

91 posted on 09/21/2010 9:40:40 PM PDT by edge919
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