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It would be nice if the Supreme Court would just define for us that a Natural Born Citizen is anyone born on American Soil, or to a citizen, no matter where they were born. That is the common understanding. We don’t need all these resurrected 1950’s laws to drive our thinking on this.

“We don’t need all these resurrected 1950s laws driving our thinking . . .”

USC Title 8, Section 1401? If by “resurrected” you mean `amended’, yes that’s accurate. 1401 was amended in 1994 and Hawaii’s statutes were amended in the 1980s. Old laws are no good? They’re stale? Worn out?
That’s why they’re amended....
Or is that “1950” sounds so much more ominous: water-hosing of black people and police dogs, HUAC, communist witch-hunts, wacky conservatives ...
If not these “resurrected 1950s laws”...then what? Obama’s and the Democrats’ pinky swear? Just cause he says so?

Why are so many freepers giving the benefit of the doubt here to an unabashed marxist who could very well put the blocks to FR in short order?
Ok, it’s late, I’m going to bed.
Look to 1401. That’s waht the SC will look at. They will then look at stare decisis (past cases) and the Framers’ intent.
Like it or not—we’re still a nation of laws. And a republic, if we can keep it.

or to a citizen, no matter where they were born. That is the common understanding.

This part was not what I was taught years ago, but then people throw this part in because Mccain was not born in the USA. That was my common understanding. You had to be born in the United States, that was so no Britain could be president.

"It would be nice if the Supreme Court would just define for us that a Natural Born Citizen is anyone born on American Soil, or to a citizen, no matter where they were born. That is the common understanding. We don’t need all these resurrected 1950’s laws to drive our thinking on this. "

I don't think I know what you are referring to about the "resurrected 1950's laws", as the passage of time should not have any affect on how a "natural born citizen" is defined. They were either born here, or they weren't.

From the "1950's" information I have received, unless obama can produce a Hawaiian birth certificate - a real one - I don't see where he qualifies as a Natural Born citizen. Of course, the powers that be will somehow manage to spin and twist it to try and make it so.

I guess your comment is in the vein of the "living Constitution" crowd who thinks that we can ignore the law because it wasn't written last week in a local Starbucks.

"You can't quickly move the target in front of the arrow, and then claim to be a marksman." - FrankR