There was a campaign of misdirection, not suprisingly similar to that surrounding Obama. Many of Arthur's statements were patently untrue, and can only be construed as a tactic to create more confusion. Arthur told the press that his mother was “...a New Englander who had never left her native country.” That was not true, and every member of the Arthur family knew it.
Someone pointed out that, unlike the statements on Wiki and in the voluminous “Gentleman Boss,” life and times of Chester Arthur, Arthur and Hinman, the journalist were old friends and associates during Arthur's tumultuous New York years. The Hinman book could well have been clever misdirection. Arthur's appointee Horace Gray certainly understood the definition of who were natural born citizens, having made Minor v. Happersett his first citation in Wong Kim Ark.
It seems very possible that Arthur's ineligibility was not at all a secret, but that both parties found it inconvenient to turn the stones which might cause many more to be implicated in the cover-up, very much like the silence of so many who know better.
While much of what “Squeeky”, our most recent Obot, is nonsense, her/his reminder that Mark Levin, in whose book Liberty and Tyranny Levin quotes Madison explaining why the framers built the Constitution upon the common-language understood at the time of its framers, resorts to name-calling when the issue arises. For those who trust reason and clear language, there appears to be more to this cover-up than what has been published to assuage the concerns of citizens. Is the presumption that we live in a representative republic, with laws subject to judicial review an elaborate myth?
excerpt federalist six
With equal pleasure I have as often taken notice that Provi-
dence has been pleased to give this one connected country, to
one united people; a people descended from the same ances-
tors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established their general liberty and independence.
This country and this people seem to have been made for
each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Provi-
dence that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren,
united to each other by the strongest ties, should
never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien
sovereignties.
Here is what I wrote ON MY WEBSITE (so that nobody gets confused about where it comes from). If I was Leo Donofrio, I would hang it up after reading this and go join like a monk place or something, or maybe become an anonymous hobo:
The Alternate Reality Universe of Leo Donofrio (A White Paper)
“Is the presumption that we live in a representative republic, with laws subject to judicial review an elaborate myth?”
Stay tuned.
“Is the presumption that we live in a representative republic, with laws subject to judicial review an elaborate myth? “
Unfortunately, it would appear so.
And Mark Levin’s stance in light of the Minor vs Happersett information becoming (more) widely known and in the face of the Justiagate revelations is, to my mind inexplicable, if not despicable, as is the non-coverage by Master of the Chalkboard, King of Connect-the-Dots Glenn Beck. Are they “Too Big to Not Play Ball”?