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To: Mr Rogers

Doing research on “natural born citizen” using sources that predate 2007 will show a clear understanding of the phrase. There is no ambiguity or misunderstanding inherent concerning natural born. Those sources will clearly show that Obama, Romney, Santorum, McCain, Jindal and Rubio are not natural born citizens.
There have been many changes to online sources which attempt to subvert the constitution and the law. Those making such changes should receive harsh punishment. Those paying for the changes, Soros, should be fined hundreds of millions of dollars


153 posted on 06/13/2012 9:32:48 AM PDT by W. W. SMITH (Maybe the horse will learn to sing)
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To: W. W. SMITH

“Doing research on “natural born citizen” using sources that predate 2007 will show a clear understanding of the phrase. “

Hmmm...my sources include legislation passed at the time the Constitution was being written, and the US Supreme Court ruling in...1898. Or Lynch, in 1844, or Kent’s Commentaries on American Law from 1826, or Blackstone’s Commentaries from 1803.

There was no ambiguity in the use of natural born citizen. But the phrase included those born to aliens, just as the preceding phrase ‘natural born subject’ had.

If you want to know what the term means, it is better to pay attention to how it was used at the time the Constitution was written, rather than pulling the meaning from a bad translation of Vattel published 10 years later.


157 posted on 06/13/2012 11:15:28 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (A conservative can't please a liberal unless he jumps in front of a bus or off of a cliff)
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