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    "naturally born"... oh my god, so to become the US President one cannot be born by the Caesarean section?! :D Commented Aug 31, 2020 at 10:51
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    Citizenship does not imply a right to vote, even less so in the 18th century than today. The assertion that "citizen was explicitly white, propertied and male" is incorrect. Women were also citizens, as were children, yet they could not (and the latter still cannot) vote. Similarly, disenfranchised felons are still citizens. A court ruled in Lynch v Clarke (1844) that a woman born in the US was a US citizen despite a long residence in Ireland. Her citizenship obviously did not depend on her right to vote or lack thereof. Commented Aug 31, 2020 at 19:29
  • @quetzalcoatl I keep hearing about the Caesarian section; I'll have to visit it sometime if I ever get to Rome. But people born there were obviously not born here. Commented Sep 2, 2020 at 1:29