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To: El Gato

Wrong way to look at it.
Natural Born Citizen has always meant Citizen at Birth.

However, when Common Law controlled this issue, both terms still meant the same thing.

The Founders meant that you had to be a Citizen at Birth, and at the time they wrote and ratified those words, they also gave Congress the power to define Citizenship clearly.


233 posted on 02/01/2012 10:52:59 PM PST by Kansas58
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To: Kansas58
at the time they wrote and ratified those words, they also gave Congress the power to define Citizenship clearly.

They gave Congress the power to define Naturalization rules, not citizenship, unless you can point to a Constitutional clause stating otherwise.

238 posted on 02/01/2012 11:12:49 PM PST by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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