To: Crazy ole coot
In Minor v. Happersett, the Supreme Court said that to be a Natural Born Citizen, you must have two citizen parents.
No, the Court said kids of two citizen parents were definitely citizens, but the Court expressly refused to rule on whether someone born within a country was a citizen regardless of his/her parents' citizenship. The Court never said you absolutely must have two citizen parents to be a natural born citizen.
49 posted on
10/29/2011 7:11:42 AM PDT by
DTxAg
(The Presidency is not an entry-level position.)
To: DTxAg
The Constitution does not in words say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.
This tells me that you must have two citizen parents:
“it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives or natural-born citizens,”
51 posted on
10/29/2011 7:35:44 AM PDT by
Crazy ole coot
(Mr. obama (the squatter in the Whitehouse) is NOT a Natural Born Citizen!!)
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