Posted on 12/06/2008 7:17:21 PM PST by STARWISE
[I have collaborated on this with my sister and historian Greg Dehler, author of "Chester Allan Arthur", Published by Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, 2006 ISBN 1600210791, 9781600210792 192 pages. ]
I’ve been forwarded the actual naturalization record for William Arthur on microfiche, obtained from the Library of Congress. He was naturalized in New York State and became a United States citizen in August 1843.
Chester Arthur perpetrated a fraud as to his eligibility to be Vice President by spreading various lies about his parents’ heritage.
President Arthur’s father, William Arthur, became a United States citizen in August 1843. But Chester Arthur was born in 1829. Therefore, he was a British Citizen by descent, and a dual citizen at birth, if not his whole life.
He wasn’t a “natural born citizen” and he knew it.
We’ve also uncovered many lies told by Chester Arthur to the press which kept this fact from public view when he ran for Vice President in 1880. Garfield won the election, became President in 1881, and was assassinated by a fanatical Chester Arthur supporter that same year.
How ironic that the allegations started by Arthur Hinman in his pamphlet entitled, “How A British Subject Became President”, have turned out to be true…but not for the reason Hinman suggested.
Hinman alleged that Arthur was born in Ireland or Canada as a British subject. It was bunk.
It’s been definitively established that Chester Arthur was born in Vermont. But Hinman turns out to be correct anyway since Chester Arthur was a British citizen/subject by virtue of his father not having naturalized as a United States citizen until Chester Arthur was almost 14 years old.
That means Chester Arthur was a British subject at the time of his birth.
We’ve uncovered news clips exposing a thorough trail of lies, all of which served to obscure Chester Arthur’s true history of having been born as a British citizen.
Chester Arthur’s lies came during his Vice Presidential campaign in 1880. His fraudulent attempt to obfuscate family history provides context and evidence that in 1880 it was recognized that having been born as a British citizen would make one ineligible to be President or VP. His falsification of family history indicates he was aware of POTUS ineligibility.
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Chester Arthur was in politics at the time of the 14th Amendment’s ratification. He was a lawyer and a politician while the 14th Amendment was being debated. It was ratified in 1867.
In that same year Chester Arthur rose to become chairperson of the Executive Committee of the State Republican Committee. He would have been fully cognizant of the natural born citizen issue and that should he ever run for POTUS or VP, problems could arise.
He would have known that if anybody found out his father naturalized after he was born, he could never be President or Vice President.
CHESTER’S LIES
The definitive biography on Chester Arthur is “Gentleman Boss” by Thomas Reeves. It’s an exhaustive reference.
Many of the blanks in Chester Arthur’s legend were filled in by this book which utilized interviews with family members and authentic documents like the Arthur family Bible. It was a necessary work since old Chester Arthur was a very wily protector of his strange history. He burned all of his papers. (See page 2365.)
“Gentleman Boss” establishes, on page 4, that Chester Arthur’s father William was born in Ireland, 1796, and emigrated to Canada in 1818 or 1819. His mother Malvina was born in Vermont and his parents eloped in Canada in 1821. They had their first child, Regina, in Dunham, Canada on March 8, 1822.
By no later than 1824, the Arthur family had moved to Burlington, Vermont. Their second child Jane was born there on March 14, 1824.
Chester Arthur was their fifth child, and he was born on October 5, 1829. Reeves established these facts (and the correct date of Chester Arthur’s birth) from the Arthur family Bible.
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Then where's all the fun?
Leo beat 607 other poker players in Atlantic City to win a tournament plus he has won other events. He is not an amateur poker player but you appear to be an amateur trool or semi-professional Obot.
I suggest you read the research or go back to shining Obama’s shoes.
On FoxSportsSouthwest where the Mavs are pulling off another one. :)
Because woman had no standing in the 1800’s only men could bring the linage forward!
Well just damn!
You forgot to bold the important part
“at the time of the adoption of this Constitution”
‘US Constitution, Article II, Section 1 seems to cover it all pretty well. I see no room for argument.’
Agree. President=President elect:
In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation or Inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what Officer shall then act as President, and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the Disability be removed, or a President shall be elected.
It matters less..........they could have adopted it on 9/11 or 10,000 BC.......born in the US, be elected President.
From another thread:
the Naturalization act of 2000 states that a child born before 1983 has citizenship determined by the father’s nationality.
there is a difference between natural born and native born.
Following JFK’s murder, as modified by
Article. [XXV.]
[Proposed 1965; Ratified 1967]
Section. 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
Section. 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
Section. 3. Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.
Section. 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
Silly stuff. What does the Constitution say?
Native born is simply being born in the USA, but not necessarily natural born.
Rep. Bingham commenting on Section 1992 said it means “every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.”
http://federalistblog.us/2008/11/natural-born_citizen_defined.html
Secretary of State Bayard ruled under Section 1992 of U.S. Revised Statutes in 1885 that although Richard Greisser was born in the United States, his father at the time of his birth was a subject of Germany, and thus, Richard Greisser could not be a citizen of the United States. Furthermore, it was held his father was not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States under the Fourteenth Amendment.
http://federalistblog.us/2008/11/natural-born_citizen_defined.html
Hey, Civ. This history stuff looks right up your alley. I posted a similar thread a few days ago.
Maybe Obama will be the Second Foreign-Born President in History
Wednesday, December 03, 2008 4:49:32 PM · by Kevmo · 24 replies · 1,020+ views
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2142451/posts
US v. Wong Kim Ark. Being born on US soil makes you a US citizen, unless your parents were foreign diplomats or members of an invading army. IOW, the article is just a bunch of historical trivia.
The government had argued that Wong Kim Ark was not a citizen because, although he was born in the US, his parents were Chinese citizens, and therefore not "subject to the jurisdiction thereof [of the United States]". But obviously, the government was wrong, because otherwise furriners could park illegally with impunity just as UN diplomats do.
Clearly, the nationality of the father is important and still continues to be important today.
http://sanmarino.usvpp.gov/crba.html
If this website is correct..notice the difference between requirements if married versus out of wedlock (which may be the case for Obamanazi since his father was already married..just another twist in the convulated mess)
b) One parent is a U.S. citizen, and that parent has been physically present in the U.S. for a period or periods totaling not less than five years, at least two of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years (for children born before Nov. 14, 1986, the parent’s required period of physical presence in the United States is longer).
An unmarried American citizen mother with at least one year of continuous physical presence in the U.S. can transmit U.S. citizenship to a child born abroad out of wedlock.
http://federalistblog.us/2006/12/us_v_wong_kim_ark_can_never_be_considered.html
“What did the court do? They did just as they have done before, and what they had done in Wong Kim Ark, they simply said Congress did not mean what it said, and instead, meant “next of kin.” Who was William Gray’s “next of kin”? None other than Justice Gray himself.”
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