DEFINITION OF NATURAL BORN CITIZEN SINCE 1789

Founder and Historian David Ramsay defines “natural born Citizen” in 1789

“CITIZENSHIP…BELONGS TO NONE BUT THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN BORN OF CITIZENS”

by Mario Apuzzo, Esq.


Historian David Ramsay (1749-1815)

In defining an Article II “natural born Citizen,” it is important to find any authority from the Founding period who may inform us how the Founders and Framers themselves defined the clause. Who else but a highly respected historian from the Founding period itself would be highly persuasive in telling us how the Founders and Framers defined a “natural born Citizen.” Such an important person is David Ramsay, who in 1789 wrote “A Dissertation on the Manners of Acquiring the Character and Privileges of a Citizen,” (1789) a very important and influential essay on defining a “natural born Citizen.”


Full article with multitude of related links:

http://www.thepostemail.com/2010/04/02/founder-and-historian-david-ramsay-defines-natural-born-citizen-in-1789/

Also a sidebar issue and comment on this:

This article needs to be read by EVERY Legislator in EVERY State and in the Federal Legislature so that States will STOP giving Citizenship to babies born in the USofA to Illegal Aliens. I have contended for over 25 years [when I worked for the Welfare System], that the States were misinterpreting the Constitution of the USofA when they allowed for the creation of “anchor babies.” David Ramsey explanation is clear and Constitutional. Every State in the USofA needs to stop the insidious practice of ignoring the meaning and intent of the US Constitution in order to grant citizenship to babies of Illegal Aliens who are obviously NOT “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” because they have broken the law by entering the USofA without regard to lawful means.