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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (28959)7/13/2008 1:42:52 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71588
 
It makes you a "US Citizen"... but that does not mean the exact same thing as a "natural born US Citizen"

Yes it does. The only alternative is naturalized citizens, and children of US citizens aren't/don't have to be naturalized.

The constitution does not say that a president must be born in the US.

See
prawfsblawg.blogs.com
and
volokh.com

Previous to this law passed by Congress, by accepted legal practices since the nation's founding (hence the law to change them...) a child so born outside of the incorporated areas of the United States of America was disqualified to be President. Not 'natural born'....

Not so.



To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (28959)7/13/2008 10:58:02 AM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 71588
 
This is a silly discussion. McCain was born of US citizens on soil that is the equivalent of sovereign US territory. End of discussion.