curiosity wrote, “But his father was a naturalized citizen. Furthermore, it wouldn’t have been difficult for Arthur’s opposition to verify that, since naturalization records were publicly available.”
Well, isn’t that an amazing thing, because Chester A. Arthur’s father’s year of naturalization (1846) was a deep, dark secret for 128 years, from at least 1880 until one of Atty. Leo Donofrio’s researchers uncovered it in 2008.
Chester A. Arthur was born in 1829, 17 years before his father became a U.S. citizen. Pres. Arthur must have considered that nbC defect a threat to his Presidency, because he burned all his presidential papers to keep it a secret.
Of course, Chester A. Arthur could have completely forgotten about the Constitutional requirements for the Office of President and about the meaning of “natural born Citizen.” After all, it had been five years since Chief Justice Waite ruled on nbC for the Supreme Court in _Minor v. Happersett_.
Nonsense. Naturalization records are public. Anyone wishing to verify that Arthur's father was naturalized could just go to the Fedearl Court in New York and pull up his natrualization records. The fact that no one bothered to do so, despite the fact that his father's foreign birth was no secret, proves no one cared about his father's citiznship status at the time of his birth.
Pres. Arthur must have considered that nbC defect a threat to his Presidency, because he burned all his presidential papers to keep it a secret.
Pure nonsense. His father's naturalization was a PUBLIC RECORD kept in the arichives of New York Federal Court. There was nothing Arthur could do to keep it a secret.
After all, it had been five years since Chief Justice Waite ruled on nbC for the Supreme Court in _Minor v. Happersett_.
Sigh. Chief Justice Waite did not rule that two citizen parents were necessary for NBC, birther's quoting the said justice out of context notwithstanding.