[so_real]

1) Commentary isn’t Law

The Constitution is law; it is the Supreme Law of the Land. Bingham said his definition of natural born citizen is "declaratory of what is written in the Constitution". That means it is declared in the Law. Bingham was a lawyer and a district attorney. He served as the judge advocate in the Lincoln assassination trial, and served as prosecutor in the Johnson impeachment trial. He knew a thing or two about the law. His belief up-to-and-including the year 1866 was that a natural born citizen status was conveyed to the product of citizen parents born in country ... because this is what is declared in the Constitution. Do you have a definition that that pre-dates Bingham's by a more reputable source that says otherwise?

[freedumb2003]

>>. Do you have a definition that that pre-dates Bingham’s by a more reputable source that says otherwise?<<

Law doesn’t go backwards, it goes forward. Although most Conservatives believe in Res judicata, where there was no “Judicata” the first judgement is, by definition, the bright line demarcation.

After that, each and ever SUBSEQUENT decision is the milestone. Not predecessors.

And, as I said, even the framer of a price of legislation is but an opinion. The language instantiated is our law. SUBSEQUENT clarifications provide guidance. That is how rhw USC was written and what has kept us, mostly, whole.

And it says my kids can be President even though my wife came from Mexico.

Do you say otherwise, despite the fact they can get USA passports with just Birth Certificates?