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To: GizmosAndGadgets

I’m the same. They key to understanding “natural born citizen” for purposes of being eligible to serve as President lies in the way the Founding Fathers were “grandfathered in”. You can see the distinction right there,

The FF were born British same as Obama (Kenyan-British actually)

The only born British (or foreign) people who qualify to be President are those who were US citizens at the time of the adoption of the US Constitution. This is written into the Constitution


297 posted on 12/24/2008 2:30:39 AM PST by dennisw (IÂ’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free market system -President George W. Bush)
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To: dennisw
"The only born British (or foreign) people who qualify to be President are those who were US citizens at the time of the adoption of the US Constitution."

What about dual citizenship? Do you think that dual citizens are constitutionally excluded? If so, would you say that a person who was claimed as a subject or citizen by another sovereignty would be considered to be ineligible by virtue of potentially having divided loyalties?

304 posted on 12/24/2008 2:46:31 AM PST by calenel (The Democratic Party is a Criminal Enterprise. It is the Socialist Mafia.)
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