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To: Nero Germanicus

Framers defined natural born as a person born to parents both of whom were citizens. I guess judges can interpret the Constitution any way they want to!


58 posted on 04/12/2016 6:00:40 PM PDT by orinoco (Orinoco)
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To: orinoco

On the other hand, the First Congress established that children born abroad to U.S. citizens were U.S. citizens at birth, and explicitly recognized that such children were “natural born Citizens.” The Naturalization Act of 1790 provided that citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States . . . .”
The actions and understandings of the First Congress are persuasive because so many of the Framers of the Constitution were also members of the First Congress. That is particularly true in this instance, eight of the eleven members of the committee that proposed the natural born eligibility requirement to the Constitutional Convention served in the First Congress and none of them objected to a definition of “natural born Citizen” that included persons born abroad to citizen parents.


98 posted on 04/12/2016 7:13:13 PM PDT by Nero Germanicus
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