I've always maintained that there is a COLB, and that the Obama team was dangling it as a rope-a-dope that no one picked up on. However, now that he's been elected why is he not releasing it? That is quite suspicious if you ask me. Secondly, I've also been wondering why people in the GOP are not making an issue of it. Some FReepers have said it's because they don't want to be labeled racist (I say 'so what' to that, since as a citizen ...particularly one that was elected to serve the nation ...you should be willing to lay down your life in the service of the nation, and you should not let someone who is not eligible to take the most powerful seat in that nation just because you don't want to be 'called names'). However, we've hashed that out with other FReepers many times, and there is no need to bring that into this thread (although I do fervently believe that, in the same way 19 year old soldiers are willing to lay down their lives for their country, 60 year old politicians should also be willing to lay down their POLITICAL CAREERS for their country. One should not expect people who cannot legally drink to make the ultimate sacrifice, yet politicians are not willing to risk being called names).
Anyways ....no need to drag that here.
The main thing, as far as I am concerned, in regards to this thread is this: reading it I noticed that a lot of the cases and scenarios are from the late 1800s. Is that not an Achiles heel that any adept lawyer on the Obama side can pick on? All the cases regarding citizenship only being confered by the father alone, and those statements being made in the 1800s, does not seem like it would stick in modern-day America.
I am interested in the issue, but have no doubt of the outcome: Barack Hussein Obama will be duly elected by the Electoral College and inaugarated as the President of the United States. This will become just another bit of the Constitution consigned to the waste bin of history because its incovenient for politicians.
Republicans will do nothing about this, of that you can be sure. However, if the shoe was on the other foot, the Democrats would be raising unmitigated hell about it.
With respect to your comment as why GOP did not make Natural Born Citizen an Issue. GOP knew that its nominee, Senator McCain, under the same definition of NBC was not eligible. There were several lawsuits challenging Senator McCain eligibility long before the first lawsuit was filed against Obama.
With regard to your second point that how 1800 law sticks in modern day: In the absence of any amendment or any case law, the 1800 law applies