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To: Red Steel
Natural born in the strictest sense is being born within the United States to US citizens is what the framers had in mind.

Nope. What you are missing is that "natural-born citizen" had a specific meaning in common law. Most of the Founders were lawyers. They knew exactly what it meant. There was no need to define it in the Constitution, as it already had a specific meaning.

Don't take my word for it. Read the Wong Kim Supreme Court decision. The Court explains what these terms mean and their history in tens of pages of detail.

Don't argue with me. Argue with the Supreme Court.

245 posted on 12/01/2008 9:12:38 AM PST by Sherman Logan (Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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To: Sherman Logan

For easy reference, there’s a wiki article about that ruling with links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Wong_Kim_Ark


246 posted on 12/01/2008 9:23:54 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Election 2010 begins today!)
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