And yes, the timing of the release of this attempted work of obfuscation is interesting. Why now? What are they worried about at this point? ;)
No need to copy or paste this collection of intentional misdirection. You don't really need to read it. When Maskill spends paragraphs on Wong Kim Ark, and cites a collection of obscure cases, but doesn't cite the very first citiation used by Justice Gray in Wong Kim Ark, citing Minor v. Happersett, the case which turned common law into precedence, the case George Soros' employees obscured by scrubbing twenty five or twenty six supreme court cases of their citations to Minor v. Happersett during the Summer of 2008, Maskill has created another “Snow Job.”
When a justice department attorney uses this statement “The term “natural born” citizen is not defined in the Constitution, and there is no discussion of the term evident in the notes of the Federal Convention of 1787,” you are being intentionally confused. Try to find any term defined in the Constitution, other than “Treason” This is evil sophistry.
Minor v. Happesett is a wonderful example of what the Supreme Court was chartered to do, interpret the Constitution. The only definition provided by the Constitution for a citizen of the US before the 14th Amendment was that provided for eligibility of our president, by far the largest class of citizens in the US, natural born citizens. It was common law, made precedence in Minor v. Happersett. It was cited as dictum by founder, framer, and our 4th Chief Justice, John Marshall in the Venus, 1814. Marshall cited Vattel as the most concise source for the defintion, but Chief Justice Waite, in 1874 cited no one. He turned common law into positive law - precedence - stare decisis.
“The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.”
Elizabeth Minor was a natural born citizen, and thus a citizen, before the 14th Amendment was passed in 1868. This fact was essential to the decision, and was cited by several dozen other supreme court cases, including Ex. Parte Lockwood, which did more the cite. In the Lockwood decision, in a paragraph scrubbed on the Cornell Law site by Soros’ Center for American Progress operative, are the words “Happersett...held...” Those words affirm the recognition of the precedence established by Minor v. Happersett.
Many if not most constitutional law faculty know the truth of this travesty - the scrubbing of historical documents accessible to the public. The correct citations are, of course, still present on the paper documents in our national archives, and in the digital copies available at the subscription legal services, Lexis, and Westlaw. But the most frequently cited source of legal references, Justia.com, had the twenty five relevent documents edited in the Summer of 2008. Justia has since blocked access to the Google archives of its pages, and has now replaced the corrupted documents with corrections, returning the documents to their pre-2008 state.
This document by Jack Maskill is yet another set of intentional misdirection. Minor v. Happersett could not be more clear. Thanks to Bill Clinton, we have thought about “What is is.” A person born on our soil to citizen parents is a natural born citizen. Is does not mean inclusion, it means identity. Without Article II Section 1 Minor v. Happersett could not have been decided. Read Minor v. Happersett. About natural born citizens there was never doubt. About who were citizens there was doubt. About Elizabeth Minor's status, for the court to have jurisdiction, there could be no doubt - and there wasn't. She was a natural born citizen. Our Congressional Research Service has been paid with our tax dollars to lie to us and to confuse those who haven't read original documents. Wong Kim Ark was not made a natural born citizen, and Justice Gray, who wrote the decision, cited Minor v. Happersett, a unanimous confirmation of the definition of who were natural born citizens. Justice Gray was also on the court which wrote Ex. Parte Lockwood, and confirmed the holding in Minor. Our government and most of our legislators are traitors to our Constitution. There is no doubt if you first read original sources, in this case, Minor v. Happersett. You will see, because Chief Justice Waite explains, why he turned common-law into positive law. As Waite said, “It was never doubted...”
Read Leo Donofrio’s analysis at naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com, and Dianna Cotter at Examiner.com. Read Minor v. Happersett. Find several sources because our most popular seach engine, Google, has been pointing you to justia.com, and justia edited at least twenty five cases, all citing Minor v. Happersett. Justia has now blocked access to archives of their pages, but a number of people, including Leo Donofrio, have screen captures. Maskill only confirms the the subterfuge which has protected the ineligible Obama, and we are paying him to lie.
And yes, the timing of the release of this attempted work of obfuscation is interesting. Why now? What are they worried about at this point? ;)
Spaulding wrote: “When a justice department attorney uses this statement [...]”
And: “The publishing of this document must mean that Obama’s Justice department is worried about the issue,”
Wrong branch of government. Jack Maskell doesn’t work for the Justice Department. That very first word — “Congressional” — that was a clue.