First, we need to fight to ensure there IS an election in 2016.
Sarah Palin ping.
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Marco Rubio, born in the U.S.A. of Cuban Citizen parents, is not eligible to be President. Period.
Three types of citizenship are recognized by our government: native born; naturalized; and citizen-by-statute (derived citizenship from parents). All have equal rights. All can serve in Congress, either as a Representative in the House, or as a Senator in the Senate.
The following link will take you to the government’s own Immigration Service web page describing the three types of citizenship.
http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=a2ec6811264a3210VgnVCM100000b92ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=a2ec6811264a3210VgnVCM100000b92ca60aRCRD
Natural born Citizen is NOT a type of statutory citizenship. Natural born is ONLY an eligibility requirement for the U.S. Presidency per Article II, Section 1, clause 5, of the U.S. Constitution, and requires, as per the Founders, the President to be born in the United States (jus solis) AND of two citizen parents (jus sanguinas).
The definition of natural born Citizen appears in the holding of SCOTUS’s unanimous decision of Minor v. Happersett (1874).
Virginia Minor, a Suffragette, sued to be included as a candidate for U.S. President based on her eligibility under the 14th Amendment to the U.S.Constitution.
SCOTUS rejected her argument and examined her eligibility, concluding that she belonged to the class of citizens who, being born in the U.S. of citizen parents, was a natural born Citizen, and not covered by the 14th Amendment. This holding has been used in 25 consequent SCOTUS decisions since 1875.
No one has the RIGHT to be President.
The eligibility requirement of Natural Born Citizenship (jus solis + jus sanguinas: born in the U.S. of U.S. citizen parents) must be viewed as a means to prevent split allegiance for any President of the United States.
The following is often used to support people like Rubio who seek to be President, but it was superceded centuries ago and is a false argument.
“The First U.S. Congress included in the 1790 Immigration & Naturalization Act language to alert the State Department to the fact that Americans born abroad are (“natural born” citizens” and are not to be viewed as foreigners due to foreign birth. They were not granted citizenship via that US statute rather their automatic citizenship was stated as a fact that must be recognized by immigration authorities. They were not citizens by any other means than natural law, and statutory law was written to insure that their natural citizenship was recognized.”
This is not a reasonable explanation. It fails to recognize that Congress only has powers over naturalization. Congress has no power to define “natural born Citizen”, which has nothing to do with naturalization. Furthermore, if Congress wants to tell the State Department something, they don’t have to enact legislation to do it.
But more important is that all of the following naturalization acts, 1795, 1802, etc., were also passed to naturalize the children of U.S. citizens born abroad. And the words “natural born” were repealed in the 1795 Naturalization Act and never returned again.
Would like to see the likes of Rand Paul, Rubio, and Cruz as the 2016 candidates.
NO!
Not ever!
I luv Marco but, he is not NBC and I will be satisfied with Hillary as POTUSIS before I will capitulate to a globalist agenda that ignores, once again, and undermines the Constitution.
Same for you Jindal.
Marco Rubio is not on my Conservative list, Rand Paul would be along with my favorite (read the tag).
America needs a new party
Because Rubio’s were not citizens at the time he was born here, he is NOT “natural born”. I could not vote for him.
No Rubio...
He is Amnesty-Liberal....very Pro-Illegal Alien Amnesty
And he is not Natural Born.
All those Liberals and PhonyCons who laugh and biatch about “Birthers” bringing up Obama’s lack of Constitutional Eligibility....will not hesistate to go after Rubio for his not being Natural Born. You can bet on that
Oh, and we have not even touched his Senate voting record...Rubio voes with the Dems as much as the Maine GOP Senators do
We need REAL CONSERVATIVES for candidates...stop wasting Conservative voters time and money on candidates who are not Conservative nor Eligibile
So I see you run a marketing company in LA—of the type that Obama’s campaign contacted about potential work—and this ‘grassroots’ site, as you so identify it, makes the same case for better GOP marketing that you often make here.
Why should we not think Rubio or his team are simply your newest clients?
Well they aren’t conservatives if they are pushing an amnesty loving Rubio empty suit.
If we aren’t able to ensure honest elections in the future everything we do will be a waste of effort.