Posted on 01/30/2023 10:17:55 AM PST by CDR Kerchner
The Preamble to the Constitution, which stated the Framers' intent, says that the Constitution was "ordained and established... to secure the Blessings of Liberty... to ourselves and our Posterity."
"Ourselves" means "We the People," the citizens of the United States who established the Constitution and delegated our powers to the states and the federal government.
"Our Posterity" means the children born to We the People, the citizens of the United States.
The "Blessings of Liberty" means that only the Posterity of We the People can ensure Liberty by being allowed to hold the highest office in the land. No other office in the Constitution has this requirement, meaning that the offices of representation are open to all citizens, but the executive office is limited to the Posterity of We the People.
Resident aliens are not "We the People," as they are not citizens and cannot vote for Representation in the House. Therefore, the children of resident aliens are not the "Posterity" of "We the People."
Since resident aliens are expected to be here for a long time, it is reasonable to assume that they will have children. Their children may be born here, but they are not citizens descended via parentage, as their parents are still citizens of their home countries. They are not the Posterity of We the People.
It gets even murkier when the parents aren't even resident aliens, but people on temporary visas, such as tourists, students, and specialty or seasonal workers (L1, H-1B, H-2B). These people had no legal expectation to remain here, so their children born here should have no legal expectation of being natural born citizens here. They are not the Posterity of We the People, but the offspring of passers-by.
-PJ
There were thousands of non citizens in Revolutionary War times. Most took oaths of allegiance. to fight in the war etc..
Three of my 4 grandparents were aliens. Only one grandfather was naturalized. So that means my dad, mom and all their brothers and sisters and myself and my siblings and my grandchildren....none of us are citizens.....according to Macho
Not this crap again.
I wouldn’t be surprised if she ends up on the ticket as a VP.
The Supreme Court told you kooks you were wrong a long time ago: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Wong_Kim_Ark
Natural Born is President specific...you can't just stick it in where you please.
Stop it. Post this kind of stuff over chemtrailsrus.com.
Amen! For some reason, they avoid Wong Kim Ark, and glom onto Minor v. Happerset. Years ago, before I chose Penelope Dreadful as my nom de plume, Squeeky called me Fabia Sheen, Esq. She even put me into one of her movies! I had forgotten all about this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6QEnUxTD4M&t=377s
Nikki Haley is not qualified for POTUS: She is not a natural born citizen. And she cannot be trusted. She has too many negatives, too many attacks on conservatives, and is too divisive, a person who hates our history.
Nikki Haley is not qualified for POTUS: She is not a natural born citizen. And she cannot be trusted. She has too many negatives, too many attacks on conservatives, and is too divisive, a person who hates our history.
Well of course she’s not and neither is Camel Toe. 😣
Sheridan`s 1790 English Dictionary defines “Natural”:
“NATURAL, “native, original inhabitant”
There you go.
Since there have been so many inconsistencies in 0bama's birth story and he has never produced anything but fake and photoshopped BCs, my theory is that his "mother", while traveling in Kenya, just picked up a baby.
You are correct; I forgot to include VP.
Show me where I did that.
-PJ
Obama’s resume’, and background, have more holes in it than a food strainer.
And he has a social security number of a dead guy from Connecticut more holes than chicken wire fence.
Don’t worry. She won’t be.
He wrote a book called “Fear God and Take Your Own Part (1916). Chapter 9 is titled “When is an American not an American?” He discusses Mr. P. A. LeLong who was born in New Orleans in 1880 to an alien father (citizen of France) and an American citizen mother. LeLong wrote to the Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan about whether on a trip to France, LeLong could be drafted into the French military. The State Department wrote back that as a dual citizen, he would be subject to French laws if he went there.
Roosevelt wrote about the LeLong case in a discussion of dual citizenship (he was opposed to it). On LeLong he wrote:
“Mr. LeLong was born in this country, when he became of age he elected to exercise his birthright granted to him by the Constitution of the United States; he took an oath to support that Constitution; and he has held military office under its authority, and under the authority of two states of the American Union. He is eligible to the Presidency of the United States. He is a citizen of the United States, …”
so what makes teddy roosevelt, a law school dropout, an expert in citizenship law?
He would have had access to guys like Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (Roosevelt nominated him to the Supreme Court).
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