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Nooooo! They’re going the wrong way!
Last I heard Arizona was working on a law that would eliminate "anchor babies" -- children born on US soil of parents who were in country illegally.
They would not issue a birth certificate.
Arizona could pass a law saying babies are pineapples. In a sane world, the legislative branch would never validate a presidential election with one of these babies...oh wait.
Arizona could pass a law saying babies are pineapples. In a sane world, the legislative branch would never validate a presidential election with one of these babies...oh wait.
Since the child is already considered natural born if one parent is a US citizen this doesn’t change anything as far as I can see. Urkle was born to an underage citizen and at that time that was not sufficient but the law was later changed which, of course, does not affect him.
The stupidity of this article is higlighted by this:
“Arizona’s proposed law would defeat the whole purpose of the Framers using the natural law definition of a “natural born Citizen” as the standard to be met by any would-be President and Commander in Chief. There is good reason why the Framers relied upon natural law to provide the definition of a “natural born Citizen.” Under natural law which when applied to nations become the law of nations, a “natural born Citizen” is defined as “those born in the country, of parents who are citizens.” Emer de Vattel, The Law of Nations, Section 212 (London 1797) “
Ah, yes....in 1787, the Founders used a phrase found in the 1797 translation of Vattel, and a bad translation at that.
Had the Founders wanted to follow Vattel, they could have written:
No Person except a natural Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President
No Person except a native Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President
No Person except an indigenous Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President
No Person unless born of citizens, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President
But they didn’t write any of those, and instead used a legal term well known to the lawyers of the day - natural born citizen. It was only ignorance of what Vattel actually wrote that led birthers to worship Vattel.
They simply cannot do this.
It’s very much like Obama declaring the DOM act unconstitutional. He doesn’t have the authority to make that determination!!!
Nor does Arizona have the authority to re-define “Natural Born citizen!.... thereby bypassing or “satisfying” the constitution by way of semantics.
I think this is a great idea. The state can’t make a law changing the definition of natural born citizen under the Supreme law of the land. This gives anyone standing to challenge this all the way to the supreme court.
Governor will never sign that into law.
Governor will never sign that into law.
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I guess I’m not a natural born American since both my parents were aliens when I was born. So even though they were legal aliens, I too am ineligible to run for POTUS, even though I was born in this country.
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