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To: Southack; Windflier
The one aspect of his background that is so overlooked (or not looked at), is that fact that Barry inherited foreign citizenship...at birth, from his foreign national father. Regardless of where he was born.

The question people need to focus on, is in my tagline.

226 posted on 03/04/2010 1:10:15 PM PST by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: rxsid
The one aspect of his background that is so overlooked (or not looked at), is that fact that Barry inherited foreign citizenship...at birth, from his foreign national father. Regardless of where he was born.

The US has always held its own citizenship laws in a superior position to the citizenship laws of all other nations. What this means, is that the US determines the citizenship of people within its boundaries by its own laws, not the laws of other nations.

Another nation may well recognize you as a citizen of their country, but that determination doesn't have any bearing on your US citizenship, as far as our laws are concerned.

In Barry's case, if he was indeed born within the territory of the US, then he is a US citizen, regardless of what status any other nation confers on him, because his mother was an American citizen.

However, that does NOT make him a Natural Born Citizen of the US, due to the fact that his father was a British subject.

People can argue the definition of what a Natural Born Citizen is until the cows come home, but any objective reading of Vattel's Law of Nations, which undergirds our Constitution, reveals exactly what is meant by that phrase.

John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, wrote to George Washington about this very issue, and was quite clear in his understanding of what it meant. He insisted that the NBC clause be added to the US Constitution to protect that office from foreign influence.

It's unreasonable and convoluted thinking to arrive at the conclusion that the Founders meant that "Natural Born Citizen" means anything other than a child born of a mother and a father who are BOTH citizens of the US.

Barry is not NBC. He is an illegal president. Period. End of story.

248 posted on 03/04/2010 9:16:07 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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