“There is no provision in the Constitution and no controllingAmerican case law to support a contention that the citizenship of one’s parents governs theeligibility of a native born U.S. citizen to be President”
I never read articles at the links.
I guess I should have?
To me a NBC is from American citizens, if either parent is from another country then said person fails to qualify, period.
Sorry to mislead anyone, my rule is to not go to a link, if its not in the header it shouldn’t be posted.
If it can mislead one it can mislead many.
One must read Leo Donofrio’s site.
Thank you.
The sentence quoted by faucetman is a wonderful example of pseudo legal sophistry. The conclusion is false so any presumably supporting statements are meaningless. The only surprise is the audacity of such blatant misdirection.
There never was a contention that a “native born U.S. citizen has presidential eligibility. When the Constitution was written the term “native born U.S. citizen” was never used. A “Native” as Minor v. Happersett clarifies, is the same as a natural born citizen. Obama is, by his own definition, “A Native born citizen of the US.” The term was coined after the 14th Amendment to refer to a 14th Amendment citizen, born on our soil, but not to parents who are its citizens, as characterized in and by Wong Kim Ark, in which Justice Gray cites Minor v. Happersett for the definition of natural born citizen. No where is the term natural born citizen used in the US Code. No law can interpret a provision of the Constitution. A 14th Amendment citizen, like Obama, is a naturalized citizen - naturalized at birth. A naturalized citizen is not eligible to be president. In 1874, when the Minor decsions was written, there remained doubts about who could be defined a citizen by congress, but Elizabeth Minor was natural born, to parents who were citizens and on our soil. There are still doubts about the interpretation of the 14th Amendment which defined anchor babies. Today, the child of anchor babies, born on our soil, is deemed a natural born citizen.
The publishing of this document must mean that Obama’s Justice department is worried about the issue, possibly now that Justia and Soros’ Law.gov have been caught scrubbing Supreme Court cases of references to Minor v. Happersett. From this thread it is encouraging to see that many are beginning to understand the definition of our most common class of citizen, natural born citizens. Yes, Vattel clarified it, along with many other justices, but Minor needed the definition to be positive law. Maskill knows that. He is being paid to lie, not unusual for a lawyer.