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To: JCBreckenridge
How can one be committed to the interest of the nation and the people of the united states, if one has citizenship to another nation?

Ask George Washington, Father of Our Country.

Ask Thomas Jefferson, Father of the Declaration of Independence.

Ask James Madison, Father of the Consitution.

Every one of them served as United States President while simultaneously holding citizenship with France.

Not that I am suggesting holding dual citizenship as ones preferred status. But they all did it.

90 posted on 08/19/2013 7:40:37 PM PDT by Jeff Winston (Yeah, I think I could go with Cruz in 2016.)
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To: Jeff Winston

“Ask George Washington, Father of Our Country.

Ask Thomas Jefferson, Father of the Declaration of Independence.

Ask James Madison, Father of the Consitution.

Every one of them served as United States President while simultaneously holding citizenship with France.”

And all of them explicitly stated that they were grandfathered because they were born prior to the formation of the United States.

Is this really the best argument you’ve got?


93 posted on 08/19/2013 7:43:50 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge
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To: Jeff Winston

Never heard of the grandfather clause, eh?


97 posted on 08/19/2013 7:48:16 PM PDT by TheBigJ
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To: Jeff Winston

Never heard of the grandfather clause, eh?


98 posted on 08/19/2013 7:48:20 PM PDT by TheBigJ
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To: Jeff Winston
Every one of them served as United States President while simultaneously holding citizenship with France.

You overlook the fact that they were declared in the Constitution to be eligible for the office of President, because they were residents of the United States at the signing of the Constitution.

But of course you knew that already, so one might as why you would make such an ill guided post.

228 posted on 08/19/2013 11:49:13 PM PDT by itsahoot (It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
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