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To: nickcarraway

As I understand that, the Constitution does not define what a natural born citizen is.

As a practical matter, nobody stopped Obama or Kamala Harris with their foreign-born parents, from being president and vice president.


24 posted on 05/25/2023 10:34:51 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego
As I understand that, the Constitution does not define what a natural born citizen is.

No it doesn't, and as James Madison wrote: "Had we undertaken to define everything we would have written a digest of laws and not a constitution."

It is expected that people at the time understood what it meant, and they did. It wasn't until later that people got confused as to what Natural Born Citizen means. A lot of that confusion is the fault of William Rawle who lied about what it meant in his famous book "A View of the Constitution."

As a practical matter, nobody stopped Obama or Kamala Harris with their foreign-born parents, from being president and vice president.

They didn't stop the Democrats from stealing the 2020 election by rigging the swing states either, but that doesn't make it right.

81 posted on 05/26/2023 4:47:04 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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