Posted on 01/28/2018 4:18:28 PM PST by ProgressingAmerica
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Back when everyone understood that to be a natural born citizen one must be born here of citizen parents and that children of foreign nationals were excluded.
I’ve always said that “living document” is leftist newspeak for “dead letter”.
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It’s been “living” since 1803.
Thanks for posting. More excellent food for thought.
Yes, you will find no mention in the Constitution of the power of the courts to declare things “Unconstitutional”. It is a power that the Supreme Court gave itself.
Two responses:
First:
I have yet to run into a person who has actually read the full text of Marbury, and also made that claim.
Besides lying progressives with agendas, of course.
Any conservative I’ve met who have taken the time to read the full unfiltered text (which is sadly precious few) - it’s very short, BTW - come to realize the big lie. Well, this big lie anyways. Marbury does not do what the progressives say it does.
Progressivism thrives on one big lie after another, after another, etc.
Second:
So if it was living since 1803, what were the progressives whining about in 1912 then?
In many respects the 1912 election which saw Wilson to the White House was perhaps one of the most important elections in the history of the this country, 1860, 1932, 1964, 1980 also led to major shifts in how we think about the role of government in our lives. It is too early to tell but I think 2016 will also be such an election.
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Nope. A child born in the US is a natural born citizen regardless of the parent’s nationality.
You are wrong, they inherit the nationality(s) of the parents.
More than one and you are not NATURALLY an American.
I don’t understand. If not for ruling on constitutionality, thus being an equal branch of government, why would the Founders have established it?
You keep insisting that, but I’ve yet to see you post any cites.
Marbury opened the door. The statists walked through it.
If it’s living and breathing it’s not a Constitution, is it?
The Obama and Clintoon Feral “judges” do have the Constitution on life support right now though.
Chief Justice Waite, Minor v Happersett 1875
“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.”
If you read the Constitution (I read it to my 7th graders for over 25 years), you’ll see that the Constitution is silent on the subject. In Marbury v Madison the court declared an act of Congress Unconstitutional. The Court took on this power for itself—it is not actually in the Constitution. Whether or not this was or is a good thing is a subject for debate. Congress does have the power (and this power is in the Constitution) to limit the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction. It has never chosen to do so.
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