"Native" Citizen

That provision in the constitution which requires that the president shall be a native-born citizen (unless he were a citizen of the United States when the constitution was adopted,) is a happy means of security against foreign influence, which, whereever it is capable of being exerted, is to he dreaded more than the plague. The admission of foreigners into our councils, consequently, cannot be too much guarded against; their total exclusion from a station to which foreign nations have been accustomed to, attach ideas of sovereign power, sacredness of character, and hereditary right, is a measure of the most consummate policy and wisdom. It was by means of foreign connections that the stadtholder of Holland, whose powers at first were probably not equal to those of a president of the United States, became a sovereign hereditary prince before the late revolution in that country. Nor is it with levity that I remark, that the very title of our first magistrate, in some measure exempts us from the danger of those calamities by which European nations are almost perpetually visited. The title of king, prince, emperor, or czar, without the smallest addition to his powers, would have rendered him a member of the fraternity of crowned heads: their common cause has more than once threatened the desolation of Europe. To have added a member to this sacred family in America, would have invited and perpetuated among us all the evils of Pandora's Box.

The Justices of the Supreme Court do not live in a bubble. This is the perfect time to set the record straight on Natural Born Citizen, especially when we have millions of anchor babies from all over the world being born here.
And for the record, from everything I have read, it is my interpretation that there is no such thing as an anchor baby. Reading the Federalist papers, with regard to the 14th Amendment, I think it is pretty clear, that “Under the Jurisdiction of” means, the country to which you have your allegiance, not your physical presence.

They did NOT want to follow the same Natural Law that Great Britian had to make subjects of people against their will. The British used Natural Law to strengthen their empire, we were not about being an empire.

I am normally loathe to respond to posts more than a day old, but yours is emblematic of the sheer ignorance that has been on parade here on FR almost daily in connection this whole "certifigate" non-matter.

To begin with, it is not as if the "natural born citizen" issue has been arising with such regularity so as to compel the Supreme Court to tackle the issue. The Court, like all courts, will always avoid deciding issues on constitutional grounds if it can. And these "birth certificate" cases, which have all been brought by either kooks or highly marginalized ideologues (or both), are quite easily disposed of under the Court's well-established standing precedent before one even begins to gain sight of the so-called merits of the case. Hence, they will to a one all be flushed. Anyone who says otherwise is either stupid, a fool, or ignorant.

Second, what you refer to as an "anchor baby" is someone who is clearly eligible to be President. A person born in the United States is a U.S. citizen, regardless of the citizenship status of their parents. The exception would be the children of diplomats because diplomats are not "subject to the jurisidiction" of the United States -- which is what the 14th Amendment is referring to.

Finally, the fact that you refer to "[r]eading the Federalist papers, with regard to the 14th Amendment," shows that your post has no basis in reality whatsoever. The Federalist Papers were written 80 years before the Fourteenth Amendment was proposed and ratified.

FR used to be like going to a pleasant bar and having a nice drink with a bunch of amiable folks. Sure, there is the occasional drunken lout, but that mattered little, because you could have a good time and chat in depth with friends. With this whole birth certificate lunacy, however, it's been like going to a bench in some dreary pocket park downtown and sharing a bottle of Night Train in a paper bag with a bunch of crazed winos.

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