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To: 4rcane

He is not a “natural born” citizen, but his supporters, if they could understand the term, are now saying that “natural born” is the equivalent of “native born,” and that is good enough for those tens of millions of the uninformed.


253 posted on 05/01/2011 6:37:58 AM PDT by Theodore R. (John Boehner just surrendered the only weapon with which he had to fight. What does OH see in him?)
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To: Theodore R.
He is not a “natural born” citizen, but his supporters, if they could understand the term, are now saying that “natural born” is the equivalent of “native born,” and that is good enough for those tens of millions of the uninformed."

Native-born citizens are clearly natural-born citizens, but the dominant view of the legal community is that anyone who is a citizen upon birth is a natural-born citizen. Thus the two terms are not equivalent because there are natural-born citizens who are not native born, the obvious example being John S. McCain III, who was born a military base in Panama.

"Natural born citizen. Persons who are born within the jurisdiction of a national government, i.e. in its territorial limits, or those born of citizens temporarily residing abroad." -- Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition

"The Constitution's rule that the president be 'a natural born citizen' focuses not on where a person became a citizen, but when. To be eligible, one must be born a citizen rather than naturalized at some later date." -- Akhil Reed Amar, "The Constitution and the Candidates" http://slate.com/id/2183588/

267 posted on 05/01/2011 8:29:22 AM PDT by BladeBryan
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To: Theodore R.

And when those same sycophantic drones are shown the proof that Barry Bassturd is still legally Barry Soetoro, Indonesian citizen and not a US citizen, they will again don their kneepads and worship at his ‘cirtizen of the world feet’. America no longer deserves to be a We The People are the sovereigns’ Republic, and it is being taken from them by leaps and bounds, with the pirate Roberts’ subPreme court in duplicitous support.


274 posted on 05/01/2011 8:52:13 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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