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To: edge919

I already quoted it from Wong Kim Ark. But there are others too. Shanks v. Dupont says: “All those, whether natives or otherwise, who then adhered to the American states were virtually absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown; all those who then adhered to the British Crown were deemed and held subjects of that Crown.” Being native meant you were either an American citizen or a British subject. It doesn’t say all those who were native or otherwise were citizens AND subjects. Shanks goes on to deny double allegiance: “Such, I think, is the natural and indeed almost necessary meaning of the treaty; it would otherwise follow that there would continue a double allegiance of many persons — an inconvenience which must have been foreseen and would cause the most injurious effects to both nations.”


With specific regard to Barack Hussein Obama, two courts have ruled on his eligibility, the Marion County, Indiana Superior Court and the Indiana Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court of the State of Indiana refused to take up an appeal of these decisions and the Republican Attorney General of Indiana Gary F. Zoeller represented the Republican Governor of Indiana and Barack Obama and John McCain in this lawsuit.
The Indiana Court of Appeals concluded: “Based upon the language of Article II, Section 1, Clause 4 and the guidance provided by Wong Kim Ark, we conclude that persons born within the borders of the United States are “natural born Citizens” for Article II, Section 1 purposes, regardless of the citizenship of their parents. Just as a person “born within the British dominions [was] a natural-born British subject” at the time of the framing of the U.S. Constitution, so too were those “born in the allegiance of the United States natural-born citizens.”


155 posted on 04/20/2010 4:53:10 PM PDT by jamese777
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To: jamese777

I’ve already debunked the rational that Ankeny put forth. They undermined their decision by acknolwedging Wong Kim Ark declared no specific person to be a natural born citizen. Second, their decision (and the Indiana Supreme Court’s) to affirm the motion to dismiss was based on the plaintiff’s alleged failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted,not their infirm interpretation of natural born citizen or any claim of eligibility. That was tacked on nonsense.


173 posted on 04/20/2010 9:06:31 PM PDT by edge919
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