“Natural Born Citizen. A unique combination of citizenship and sole allegiance.
Natural - via the laws of nature, not available to be awarded statutorily
Born - at the time of birth
Citizen - a member of a state of political community”
Essentially correct! Thanks for your input.... See my post #190 where I expound on the term NBC being essentially a cojoining of the legal concepts of Jus Solis AND Jus Sanginis citizenship.
Given the rethinking and evolving direction of western political thought in the 1700’s, the marriage of these two concepts of citizenship makes perfect sense to address the concern of the Founders of the nation possibly being led by a President with mixed loyalities...or by one with even the appearance of mixed loyalities.....
The after birthers that these threads attract, seem to promote the idea that anyone not born by “C Section” meets the intent that Founders had in mind when they wrote the eligibility requirements for the Office of President and used (coined) the term NBC.....to them the Jus Solis concept prevails in and of itself, effectively standing alone without modification or regard top any other concept/constraint......
I don’t know about anyone else, but I find it difficult to believe that the Founders had in mind, or in intent, to enshrine the idea that the new country they were founding should be led by what is essentially a “serf” and with the loyalities that that term implies when taken alone.
I believe that the Founders, a group of well read and considered thinkers well versed in the cutting edge political thinking of their time, in establishing the greatest governmental system ever devised by man, reached for the best among us for President, rather than groping around for the least in the nation’s population.....
Rather like show dogs, our President should, and must, show his “pedigree” of birth to two purebreds in order to compete in the Presidential ring.... Obama fails the pedigree test and is the cur the Founders sought to avoid.
Fact: It is a simple matter to prove one’s natural born citizenship status.
Obama has been politely asked to prove, with the best evidence, his natural born citizenship. That he has
not promptly and willingly done so should be a **MAJOR** news story...yet..our leading conservative yappers ( Rush Limbaugh and the rest) have ignored Obama’s eligibility from the beginning. ( I am mystified.)
Honestly...The dog winning the Best in Show has a better document trail than Obama, and the media is dead on arrival.