Posted on 09/29/2011 8:43:31 AM PDT by Politics4US
In before the “he’s an idiot and doesn’t understand the Constitution!” posts!
Sounds good to me.
The standard has been set, Rubio meets that standard, end of story.
Agreed.
By those standards, an Anchor Baby of illegal immigrants could become President.
What kind of popcorn did you bring?
The birthers will now proclaim Mark Levin to have no knowledge of the Constitution and be a secret liberal plant in our conservative movement.
He is correct, but no one will EVER convince a Vattel-birther.
After all, wasn’t natural born citizen found in a translation of Vattel made 10 years after the Constitution was written? And isn’t Vattel the true source of all American law, particularly on citizenship?
Of course, no state, no court and no congressman agrees, but that only means the conspiracy is VAST!
By law, more than likely, yes.
If Obama is an NBC because he was (allegedly) born in the U.S., then Rubio is an NBC because HE was born in the U.S. case closed, end of story.
From the DISSENT in Wong Kim Ark:
“Considering the circumstances surrounding the framing of the Constitution, I submit that it is unreasonable to conclude that “natural-born citizen” applied to everybody born within the geographical tract known as the United States, irrespective of circumstances, and that the children of foreigners, happening to be born to them while passing through the country, whether of royal parentage or not, or whether of the Mongolian, Malay or other race, were eligible to the Presidency, while children of our citizens, born abroad, were not.”
If Obama is an NBC because he was (allegedly) born in the U.S., then Rubio is an NBC because HE was born in the U.S. case closed, end of story.
Good! In any case, I suspect that half of the people posting those things are probably Dem plants trying to stoke the anti-immigrant crowd into attacking one of our more promising young GOP politicos (who is not an immigrant, but that doesn’t matter to them once they get going).
We are now about two miles past the last outrageous marker. Mark is just announcing that he is compromised too. I would like to see a clear definition from him on what he calls a “Natural Born Citizen”.
He seems to be saying that “by blood” is irrelevant, and “by soil” is all that matters. OK, Mark, then if the Russian intelligence agency decided to plant a mole who would become president someday, just bring a Russian woman over to give birth here. There is your “natural born” citizen. Riiiiiight. Mark, what is your problem?
Ask Mr. Levin to explain Minor vs. Happersett (1874)
I see, so native born = natural born, therefore any anchor baby can be president. Does anybody believe that the founding fathers actually had that in mind?
He first came out against birthers in 2009:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mchWfSC8Wv4
Then he talked about them a few months ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qnxegwhiSQ&feature=related
Doesn’t matter what the founding fathers had in mind.
The standard has been set.
Ok, I consider myself a strict Constitutionalist, but I might actually agree with Mark Levin, but not because of the “obama standard”.
I read that after the Spanish-American War, we signed a treaty giving us protectorate status over Cuba, along with the Philippines and Guam.
I may be totally wrong, it wouldn’t be the first time, but if I understand correctly, ANY Cuban citizen could rightfully claim American citizenship, unless that treaty has been formally dissolved.
I know that sounds crazy, and if I am wrong, and the treaty has been dissolved, and had been before the births of Mr. Rubios’ parents, then Mr. Rubio is not a natural born citizen.
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