Posted on 03/28/2015 4:05:00 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Coughing into hand: Bullshit!
LOL! The best to you and yours as well. :-)
The basic rule of common law was was jus soli, not jus sanguinis. Jus sanguinis, much as in the later US, was gradually incorporated by statute.
Don’t care what Congress does, it cannot change by law the meaning of the term natural born citizen in the Constitution.
Though it was arguably changed by the 14th Amendment.
The first Congress passed the Naturalization Act of 1790 which exempted from needing naturalization “the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond Sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born Citizens”.
So if having an exception was good enough for the Founders and Framers who were in the first Congress in 1790, its good enough for me.
It depends on your definition of “dogged.” Obama was sued 28 times in state or federal courts over ineligibility.
Sorry, Congress does not have the power to change the ,meaning of the Constitution by passing a law.
It is, in fact, interesting that they felt these children needed a law to define their status, which strongly implies that it wasn’t defined in the Constitution itself.
It wasn’t until 1874 that the Supreme Court ruled that the term “natural born citizen” was not defined in the Constitution.
“The Constitution does not say, in words, who shall be natural born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to determine that.”—Minor v Happersett
The fifth section of the 14th Amendment, adopted in 1868 gave Congress the power to define citizenship.
Section 5. “The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”
I just realized that I do not have any good “When I was young I...” stories.
I was spectacularly well behaved.
And possibly boring.
:-\
They’re not very portable and by this account, he totes his pocket pup everywhere.
;]
Jesus Christ: You can’t impeach Him and He ain’t gonna resign.
Find something else to post. Yes he can run.
Boring might have saved my backside a few times. LOL
I was in the 4th grade when I stole a box of chalk from school. I wrote 4 letter words on the road all the way home. I lived about a mile from school, so I used up all the chalk.
I stopped right in front of my house. The principal, Mr. Rasmondson , apparently followed the writings to my house and fired to the rest. I was sent to his office the next day, confessed and received 3 swats on the butt. He used a big wooden paddle with holes drilled in it. My dad spanked me with a willow branch that evening.
I never stole another thing for the rest of my life. ;>)
fired to the rest. = figured out the rest.
You did not think that one through, did you?
:D
I wasn’t very smart. LOL
Agreed that the Constitution does not specifically define the term. The “elsewhere” the court mentions refers, IMO, to other sources of the time.
I don’t think 14A gives Congress the right to define citizenship, much less NBC. Enforcing a law is quite different from redefining its meaning.
Last time I checked, survivors aren't buried.
Jesus Christ: You can’t impeach Him and He ain’t gonna resign.
The best laid plans of gators and men...
;D
;>)
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