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To: SoConPubbie; All
... having been unable to find any proof that President Obama was born outside the United States...

The question as to where Obama was born is not the only concern about Obama's citizenship qualification to be president. The concern about where Obama was born is a decoy from the corrupt media imo, including Obama guard dog Fx News, to keep citizens from wising up about major constitutional concerns with Obama's citizenship qualifications to be president.

More specifically, John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment which addresses citizenship, had officially clarified the following about requirements to be a natural born citizen. Bingham had noted in the congressional record that one criterion for somebody to be a natural born citizen is that both parents must be full citizens when that person is born.

“All from other lands, who by the terms of [congressional] laws and a compliance with their provisions become naturalized, are adopted citizens of the United States; all other persons born within the Republic, of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty, are natural born citizens. (emphasis added) Gentleman can find no exception to this statement touching natural-born citizens except what is said in the Constitution relating to Indians.” (Cong. Globe, 37th, 2nd Sess., 1639 (1862)) (See bottom half of 1st column.)

“I find no fault with the introductory clause, which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen; (emphasis added) but, sir, I may be allowed to say further, that I deny that the Congress of the United States ever had the power or color of power to say that any man born within the jurisdiction of the United States, and not owing a foreign allegiance, is not and shall not be a citizen of the United States.” John A. Bingham, (R-Ohio) US Congressman, Architect of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, March 9, 1866. Cong. Globe, 39th, 1st Sess., 1291 (1866), Sec. 1992 of U.S. Revised Statutes (1866), Cf. U.S. Const. XIVth Amend. (See top half of 2nd column)

And since Obama's official birth certificate indicated that Obama Sr., a man possibly not Obama's biological father, was likely not a US citizen, then Obama is not constitutionally qualified to be president if such is the case. But also note that Cruz may have similar citizenship problems.

37 posted on 08/26/2013 2:29:55 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Amendment10; P-Marlowe; Lakeshark

Saying that a person is a natural born citizen who is born in the US of citizen parents (owing allegiance to no other sovereign) is not remarkable.

What it does not say is that someone is not a natural born citizen who is born in the US with only one parent already a citizen.

Further, this was in the late 1860’s, so not contemporaneous with any Founders. Those Founders in 1790 declared that a child is a natural born citizen even if its parents were overseas at the time, and the father a citizen.

The point of the quote, though, is moot. No one disputes that a child is a natural born citizen born in the US of two citizen parents.


74 posted on 08/26/2013 3:21:12 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory!)
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