RE: An anchor baby is NOT a natural born citizen. His parents were immigrants albiet legal IMMIGRANTS. Rubio’s parents did not begin their immigration and naturalization process until more than four years after Marco’s birth, more than fifteen years after they took residence in the U.S. Therefore, they could not confer upon Marco that which they did not possess at his birth, U.S. Citizenship.
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The English common law rule, under which a person’s citizenship was determined by the place of his birth, was known as jus soli.
The United States generally follows this rule.
Authority for this rule is found in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which states that: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
The Supreme Court endorsed the universality of this rule in U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark 169 U.S. 649, 18 S. Ct. 4561142 L. Ed. 890 (1898). The constitutional rule of jus soli has been construed generously and almost always has endowed all persons born in the United States with United States citizenship.
This dead argument offends our Constitution every time it is repeated. Repeating a lie often does NOT make it the truth.
It is not a legal question for judicial usurpers to dictate definition upon their political agendas. It is a Constitutional question. The American people, NOT the Supreme Court, are the final arbiters of what is or is not constitutional. Nobody above a 3rd grade reading level needs a lawyer to explain the true meaning of three simple words, Natural Born Citizen.
While it is true that our Judicial System was patterned after British Common Law and British court systems, it is FALSE to state that our Declaration, Constitution, Bill of Rights and system of self-governance were based upon British Common Law. Our Founders placed ALL faith in the people, not government or the courts, which they had seen corrupted from top to bottom in England. They entrusted ALL of our fundamental rights as “Endowed by our Creator” under Natural Law or the Laws of Nature, NOT British Common Law, which they had just separated from in the American Revolution.
Turning over the highest position in the land to someone who is not the Posterity of We the People would not be an act that secures liberty.
-PJ
No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President;
Yes they are, but the Founders were careful to describe the difference between Citizen and Natural Born Citizen, something that either escapes you, or you are purposefully being disingenuous.