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To: DJ MacWoW

Last time I checked the OED was not the basis for all our laws, the Constitution is. So what is the Constitutional definition of natural born citizen?


64 posted on 03/05/2009 5:35:54 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
You didn't even read that article, did you.

Article 2, section 1 of the Constitution states, "No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of president; neither shall any person be eligible who shall not attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States."

The pertinent part is underlined. The Founders wrote themselves a "grandfather clause" so that they would be eligible to run for President since their parents were foreign born.

71 posted on 03/05/2009 5:41:25 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: Non-Sequitur; DJ MacWoW
Last time I checked the OED was not the basis for all our laws, the Constitution is. So what is the Constitutional definition of natural born citizen?

Your ignorance, or obfuscation, on these threads (It's hard to tell which.) is an embarrassment to FreeRepublic. The Constitution contains no definitions of any or the terms it uses. Year isn't defined; dollar isn't defined; and neither is natural-born. Everyone knew what these words meant to the people who used them. You, apparently, would rather pretend that since we supposedly cannot know, the words mean nothing.

You might check out MUSCARELLO v. UNITED STATES 524 U.S. 125 and do a search for the word oxford. It's just one of many examples that I could have picked out. To see more just enter "oxford english dictionary" in the search box at that USSC website. There appear to be pages and pages of links to USSC decisions which reference the OED, but for you the OED is some meaningless distraction. Shame!

ML/NJ

162 posted on 03/06/2009 5:08:47 AM PST by ml/nj
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