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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
It used to be Maryland, so that's different. It's within one of the thirteen original states.
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So that's why we get to vote for a Senator? D.C. is not now a United State, nor part of one. So the fact that it once was does not make it so. If you're going to stick to your construction, it makes sense only if the place where one was born was a state at the time of your birth.
But I still don't see how the term is susceptible only of your interpretation. I'll grant you that it's much harder to see a person who is born outside the united states (or its territories), but is a citizen at birth by force of law qualifying. But it seems quite a stretch to say that U.S. territories (whether D.C., Panama Canal, the Arizona territories, a military base, or an embassy) cannot come within a reasonable construction of "natural born".
