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: A Natural Born Citizen...Orly

Excerpt from Vattel

By Orly Taitz, Esq.

From: Brett Gillilan To: 'Lindsey Springer' ; dr_taitz@yahoo.com Cc: 'Fred Smart' Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 1:42 PMSubject: RE: Question
Why? The Constitution says that they have to be ?natural born? which has a specific definition, originally determined at the time of the Constitution. And the Law of Nations book as the reference of the day clearly spells out that the father minimally must be a citizen of the country. See below.

http://www.constitution.org/vattel/vattel_01.htm

Book 1

CHAP. XIX.
OF OUR NATIVE COUNTRY, AND SEVERAL THINGS THAT RELATE TO IT.
§ 212. Citizens and natives.
The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. (EXAMPLE 1) As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, (EXAMPLE 2) and succeed to all their rights. The society is supposed to desire this, in consequence of what it owes to its own preservation; and it is presumed, as matter of course, that each citizen, on entering into society, reserves to his children the right of becoming members of it. The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; (EXAMPLE 3) and these become true citizens merely by their tacit consent. We shall soon see whether, on their coming to the years of discretion, they may renounce their right, and what they owe to the society in which they were born. I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; (EXAMPLE 4) for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country. (EXAMPLE 5)

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