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Is Marco Rubio eligible to be President?
http://www.freerepublic.com ^ | 2-10-2012 | self

Posted on 02/10/2012 6:27:16 AM PST by Former MSM Viewer

Did Rubios parents become citizens before he was born?


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KEYWORDS: born; citizen; natural; naturalborn; naturalborncitizen; nbc; rubio
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
Just to make a very, very, very clear point. Vattel’s “Law of Nations” WAS NOT the basis of the U.S. Constitution. Our Constitution was based on English Common Law. It was only in 1938 that the Court abandoned Common Law.

I'm going to expand on this. It doesn't matter if Vattel's Law of Nations influenced the Constitution or not.

1. Vattel's book was not law, is not law, and won't be law unless either SCOTUS incorporates it into law, or it is codified by Congress. It's definition of was "natural born citizen" is does not count for anything. Period. 14th Amendment and the United States v. Wong Kim Ark decision covered it.

2. The Erie case is more complicated than that. It ended federal common law and applied the state common law in federal diversity cases. For non-lawyers here, diversity here refers to cases in federal court due to parties being in different states among a lot of other things that would take a whole semester of civ-pro to understand.

161 posted on 02/12/2012 6:35:37 PM PST by Darren McCarty (Rick Santorum in the primary)
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To: Kansas58
Whatever, you nag. If I am alone in the world, and right, I am completely comfortable.

And one more thing: If Rubio is selected as VP, I will vote against his ticket.

162 posted on 02/12/2012 6:37:00 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (I will vote against ANY presidential candidate who had non-citizen parents.)
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To: backwoods-engineer
So you would vote for Obama?

And you call yourself a loyal American and you call me a traitor?

163 posted on 02/12/2012 6:40:20 PM PST by Kansas58
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To: Kansas58
So you would vote for Obama?

Your problem is that you are just DUMB. Read my tagline. Obama's father was not a citizen. Obama is not a natural-born citizen, and is therefore NOT eligible per the Constitution.

There are other people to vote for than Obama.

164 posted on 02/12/2012 6:43:40 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (I will vote against ANY presidential candidate who had non-citizen parents.)
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To: backwoods-engineer
A vote for anyone other than the Republican Nominee will be a vote for Obama.
165 posted on 02/12/2012 6:50:15 PM PST by Kansas58
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To: mlo

I think you are whisky-papa.


166 posted on 02/12/2012 9:51:55 PM PST by Godebert (NO PERSON EXCEPT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN!)
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To: Godebert

What is a whisky-papa?


167 posted on 02/13/2012 8:36:56 AM PST by mlo
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To: backwoods-engineer
"And the Supreme Court agrees with ME, not you."

No, the Supreme Court has not agreed with you. Just the opposite.

168 posted on 02/13/2012 9:33:10 AM PST by mlo
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To: Kansas58

you just id why common law during the writing of the constitution would not have flowed citizenship by place of birth and instead by fathers loyalty.


169 posted on 02/13/2012 3:00:30 PM PST by waynesa98
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