[brityank]

I’d like to thank everyone for contributing to this thread. There has been some personality issues, but for the most part, everyone has kept their comments on the issue at hand and I am forced (reluctantly) to modify my position based on what I have learned.

I too thank all for their informative discussions in the thread. They have reinforced my opinion that Soetoro/Obama is not qualified to the Office.

Something to note, in my opinion:
The basis of the British Common Law and statutory laws was listed in Blackstone's Commentaries. The Founders and their brethren had been at war with the British and fought against British Law (Look up 'Impressment' - Blackstone I-13). That compendium also dealt with Subjects and Peerages for the classifications of its inhabitants. The Founders rejected those classifications, as evidenced by listing only two Citizen types in the Constitution - "citizen" and "natural born citizen". Others have already listed many references to the Founders acknowledgement of that along with their valid concerns and reasons.

Nowhere else is a requirement made for a 'natural born citizen' made other than that of the office of President, and they also specifically allowed for Washington et al - who did not meet Vattel's qualifications - to assume the Office, said allowance restricted to their generation.

Seems my tag line becomes more true day by day. :^(

[Abd al-Rahiim]

So you're saying that an opinion written by an Indiana Court of Appeals Judge appointed by a Republican governor who yesterday defunded Planned Parenthood in his state is judicial activism because it concluded that persons born within the borders of the United States are "natural [*29] born Citizens" for Article II, Section 1 purposes, regardless of the citizenship of their parents. Just as a person "born within the British dominions [was] a natural-born British subject" at the time of the framing of the U.S. Constitution, so too were those "born in the allegiance of the United States [] natural-born citizens" based on Justice Gray's analysis in Wong Kim Ark?

Is that what you're saying?