“To be a NBC, both parents must be citizens of the US at the time of the person’s birth.”
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I do not think there has ever been any question about that.
The question is about the BIRTHPLACE of each parent.
The Obots claim that the birthplace of the parent is
irrelevant, as long as the parents are US citizens.
This is the ONLY point where I would like clarification.
That is correct Alex. There are a number of supreme court cases confirming the definition understood and cited in a dozen or more supreme court cases. One interesting example is Perkins v. Elg where Marie Elg was born in New York to parents from Sweden who had become naturalized citizens before her birth. A few years after Marie was born her father decided (a job offer if I recall) to return to Sweden where he repudiated his US citizenship. His wife followed with little Marie after he was settled and also gave up US citizenship.
Marie decided to return the country of her birth just before majority (21), claiming she was a citizen. The US Attorney claimed she was no longer a citizen and needed to apply for citizenship. The case went finally to the Supreme Court whe Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice, determined that, because she was born to US citizens, on sovereign US soil, even though her parents took her overseas, she was a natural born citizen, the class of citizenship granted by nature and not by man, and that can not be taken from her. They went further to clarify that were she to decide to run for the presidency, after 14 years residence and having reached the age of 35, she would be eligible.
This issue is attracting the usual paid or volunteer Obama supporters. It is interesting to see that they have not advanced their attempts to mislead in two years or more.
If you take the time to read the cases, which most haven't the time to do, the confusion gradually lifts. Rxsid provided you with the correct quotes. I don't want to repeat what he has conveyed, hundreds of times, and so will try to lift the confusion on another aspect of natural born citizenship.
Justices and judges have often stated, both in supreme court cases and in legal treatise, “Citizens are either natural born, or naturalized.” When the Constitution, in Article I section 8, ordered Congress “To establish an Uniform Code of Naturalization”, the Constitution, in which every word must be assumed to have meaning, said, in effect, that laws - statutes - define citizens, and every citizen so defined is a naturalized citizen. Thus all 14th Amendment citizens, whose criteria were spelled out in US Code, such as governed Obama, are, by definition, naturalized citizens.
The Costitution refers to two classes of citizen, the class which is eligible to the presidency, natural born citizen, and the class to be stipulated later in an Uniform way, so that the term which meant something slightly different in the Colonies, now states, would not interfere with interstate commerce. Like almost every term in the Constitution, the definition comes from our common language at the time of the framers, as Chief Justice Waite pointed out in Minor v. Happersett. It was a semantic trick to claim that we didn't understand the meaning of a natural born citizen because it wasn’t defined in the Constitution. Besides “Treason” see how many definitions you can find for any term in the Constitution.
Madison told us why the Constitution was written without definitions. It is because the meanings of words gradually change. If the Constitution was to have eternal meanings, as its framers intended, the meanings of words had to come from the common language at the time of the framers, just as Chief Justice Waite explained “At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar,”
Read original sources (just not those at Obama supporters justia.com, who altered references to Minor v. Happersett to keep amateur constitutional law readers off the track till Obama was finished destroying what remains of our foundations). Read The Venus. Read Vattel’s Law of Nations; it is a fascinating book, and contains the citation by Chief Justice Marshall in The Venus, 12 US 253, “born on the soil of citizen parents.” Read Minor v. Happersett. Read Wong Kim Ark and understand that Justice Gray, appointed by usurper Chester Arthur, is probably trying to confuse you. Wong Kim was made a “citizen”. Gray cites Minor v. Happersett as his first citation. Finally, read Congressman John Bingham's unequivocal confirmation of the Vattel definition, the Marshall, Waite, Hughes, Gray, Ramsay definition. Bingham is the originator of the 14th Amendmend, which nowhere mentions natural born citizen.
There is no doubt that Obama is not a natural born citizen, but he may be “native born citizen of the US”, the the term used in Title 8 US Code. He told us he was native born on his own web site - a citizen by statute. It really doesn't matter whether he is native born or born somewhere else. Obama was born a Subject of the British Commonwealth. We are experiencing a coup where neither our courts, our legislature, or our military justice system will protect the Constitution. They probably all feel that removing Obama would cause civil unrest, or cost the Republicans the next election, or both. These are not the leaders we can tolerate if we are to survive as a free nation.
It is not easy reading, but if you read Leo Donofrio’s analysis, you may understand that not only is there a clear common language definition in Law of Nations, our most popular legal reference at the time of the framers, our first law book at our first law school, but Minor v. Happersett used the Vattel/Marshall definition in the decision written by Chief Justice Waite for Minor v. Happersett. That established legal precedence. But our ruling class was afraid of the consequence, and did not have the courage to honor its oath to Honor, Protect, and Defend the Constitution.
This is the ONLY point where I would like clarification.
The birthplace of the parents are completely irrelevant if they are or have become American citizens before the child is born. All of the founders were British citizens prior to July 4, 1776. Only Children born after July 4, 1776 were "natural born citizens."