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To: WOSG
Common view is natural-born equates to citizenship at time of birth. Neither Chester Arthur nor Spiro Agnew, nor even Mike Dukakis satisfied NBC under your narrower 2 citizen parents definition and nobody raised an issue. unless you have court rulings to back up that narrower definition, it’s speculative.

So, then, an anchor baby could be POTUS?

217 posted on 04/27/2011 2:35:33 PM PDT by jda ("Righteousness exalts a nation . . .")
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To: jda

I dont have the definitive answer on that, but if someone is a US citizen at birth, then the common answer would be yes, they satisfy NBC. Read Ankeny court decision, and take that question to a professor of Constitutional law, eg Volokh website.


219 posted on 04/27/2011 2:53:57 PM PDT by WOSG
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