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To: RegulatorCountry

If people are arguing that the Fourteenth Amendment doesn’t give citizens natural born citizen status, then they are arguing that blacks aren’t eligible to be president. Wasn’t the Fourteenth Amendment made to make blacks citizens?


90 posted on 07/23/2009 10:36:06 PM PDT by Politics4US
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To: Politics4US
The Fourteenth Amendment did give former slaves citizenship via statute, effectively a naturalization en masse. Remember, Congress has no power to alter the meaning of the term "natural-born citizen" under the Constitution, only power over the process of naturalization.

The descendants of these former slaves, who were made citizens by law, were and are natural-born citizens, provided they were born on US soil of two citizen parents,

Obama is not a descendant of a former slave in the US, is not the descendant of two US citizens, and it is questioned whether he was born on US soil, since he has concealed practically every record of his life that would disclose such information.

So, his eligibility for the office of President is at question, since that office and the office of Vice President are the only elected offices in the entirety of the US government that require natural-born citizenship.

According to Vattel's Law Of Nations, which clearly inspired the Constitutional term, Obama is not natural-born, due to his father being a British citizen.

This is the central point of the controversy. All other aspects, his mother's age, the purportedly "fake" certification of live birth and his possibly being born outside of Hawaii, are diversions.

91 posted on 07/24/2009 3:36:03 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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