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To: DRey
The Constitution says nothing about a natural-born citizen having to have parents that were also citizens at the time of the child’s birth.

The reason the Constitution stipulates natural-born as opposed to native-born(which Rubio is) is because the founders did not want any first generation Americans who may have had parents fresh off the boat from England filling their young thoughts with the greatness of England and subsequently growing up to become to become a POTUS with divided allegiances. They wanted second generation Americans who grew up with an unencumbered love for America. Yeah, natural born means having parents who were born here, too.

14 posted on 09/19/2011 9:19:23 AM PDT by Tonytitan
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To: Tonytitan

That’s not even the birther argument! Even birthers agree he would be “natural born” if his parents had been naturalized before his birth.


15 posted on 09/19/2011 9:22:10 AM PDT by DRey (Perry/Rubio 2012)
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To: Tonytitan

Natural born??
Aliens and mutants not eligible?


18 posted on 09/19/2011 9:29:41 AM PDT by heiss
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