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Kamala Harris is Eligible VP and/or President
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"William Rawle, formerly the U.S. Attorney for Pennsylvania (1791–1799) defined natural born citizen as every person born within the United States, regardless of the citizenship of their parents." [ link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)] Quoting: Base12 The Supreme court defined it differently in MINOR v. HAPPERSETT in 1874 ---- 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.---- [ link to www.law.cornell.edu (secure)] But you're right, we should go by what Wikipedia says, instead of the Supreme Court. Quoting: Callen The next paragraph in Wikipedia also states: Supreme Court Justice Peter Vivian Daniel disagreed with this position and considered natural born citizen as every person born of citizen parents within the United States. In 1857, in a concurring opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford,[74] he quoted an English-language translation of Emerich de Vattel's 1758 treatise The Law of Nations (Le Droit des gens), stating that "The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country of parents who are citizens"
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