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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."

I thought I read a definitive article here a while back that said Rubio could not qualify for POTUS.

I hope your explanation is correct. I love everything about him.

9 posted on 09/19/2011 9:10:36 AM PDT by Baynative (The penalty for not participating in politics is you will be governed by your inferiors.)
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To: Baynative

I didn’t write the Constitution. Read the article. No one but the birther — and fringe birthers at that — are concerned he’s not a natural born citizen. There are two kinds of citizens in this country: natural born and naturalized. All that garbage about parents citizenship at the moment of birth is nonsense. And three, two, one, here they come to flame away!


11 posted on 09/19/2011 9:13:22 AM PDT by DRey (Perry/Rubio 2012)
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To: Baynative
I thought I read a definitive article here a while back that said Rubio could not qualify for POTUS.

Any article can sound definitive when it only presents one side of a legal argument.

The truth is that there clearly is a lot of disagreement on this topic, particularly on FR, and neither side gives ground on this. However, it is accurate to say that the view that Rubio would not be qualified for President is a minority view overall among legal scholars, no matter how many adherents the argument has FR, and regardless of which side may be correct in an objective sense.

I personally think he's qualified, but I'm tired of arguing it here.

16 posted on 09/19/2011 9:24:54 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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