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To: TheCipher

A citizen from birth is not the same as a natural born citizen. Here is an accurate description.

There are two types of citizenship, naturalized and born citizen. (The definition of born citizen has changed over time, i.e. anchor babies and perhaps soon illegals). There is a subset of born citizen which is a natural born citizen. This is a born citizen that would have no other nation having claims on them, i.e. born to U.S. Citizen parents on U.S. soil. This is exactly why the draft of the Constitution was amended by adding the word natural before the word born. This definition does not change over time which is why it is important to the security of the nation.

Like it or not, that is the historical record and the meaning according to those who crafted the document.

Aside from the founders (who by definition could not be natural born citizens thus the exception for them) there are only two known cases where someone who was not a natural born citizen became president - Chester Arthur and the current occupier.

Those that ignore the facts, and dissemble the plain and simple truth and meaning of the founders, provide the means by which new usurpers may claim the presidency thus hastening the great damage and decay that has already occurred to the Republic.

Respectfully,....


78 posted on 01/11/2016 10:13:19 AM PST by Badboo (Why it is important)
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To: Badboo
I know that and agree with you. What I was commenting on was the prof's assertion that an individual born to a U.S. citizen parent - whether in California or Canada or the Canal Zone - is automatically a U.S. citizen from birth, which is not the case. This had nothing to do with natural born, just basic citizenship.
129 posted on 01/11/2016 6:02:06 PM PST by TheCipher (Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain)
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