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To: eraser2005

Nope!

“James Madison

In a speech before the House of Representatives in May 1789, James Madison said:

It is an established maxim, that birth is a criterion of allegiance. Birth, however, derives its force sometimes from place, and sometimes from parentage; but, in general place is the most certain criterion; it is what applies in the United States.[13]

[edit] John Bingham

John Bingham stated in the House of Representatives in 1862:

Who are natural-born citizens but those born in the Republic? […] [P]ersons born within the Republic, of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty, are natural born citizens. Gentleman can find no exception to this statement touching natural-born citizens except what is said in the Constitution relating to Indians.[14]

He reiterated his statement in 1866:

Every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.[15]”

His father was a British subject.

Obama cannot be a ‘natural born citizen’.

Period.


231 posted on 04/27/2011 6:59:22 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Bigh4u2

So in your mind the opinion of ONE congressman in 1862 trumps established law that has been upheld by SCOTUS?

Really?


260 posted on 04/27/2011 7:04:12 AM PDT by eraser2005
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