Hear, hear!! A very succinct statement Spaulding. Bravo!
People should write a letter to their "representatives"...stating only that in the letter. How could they weasel out of that one?
Thanks rxsid, but where did I get it? Wasn't “How can a British subject be a natural born citizen” your byline?
I am just one who had a lot to learn about the Constitution when I was as irate as everyone else about all of the hidden documents. It just didn't fit. First I found Berg. Then Taitz clearly corrected Berg. So few knew the real history. Donofrio introduced cogent legal analysis, and then Apuzzo. Now I depend almost entirely upon original sources. Current legislators knew but didn't dare cross the “Birther” threshold created by the left. Besides, admitting anything could expose them legally if and when the whole cover-up is exposed.
Also illuminating are the many analysis of McCain's ineligibility. And of course, there is the remarkably cogent legal position paper in the Chicago Legal News by Breckenridge Long, later of the FDR Administration, explaining why Charles Evans Hughes, later Chief Justice Hughes, had he defeated Glenn Beck's favorite president, Woodrow Wilson. (Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes was born of parents who were British subjects, and Hughes later admitted as much, citing Minor v. Happersett in his decision in Perkins v. Elg - [thanks Sharon Rondeau] Long summarized most of what we know without arguing over translations of “indigene” from Vattel’s original French.
On a personal note, I came to realize how brilliant the legal philosophers of the enlightenment were. I control some silly talk with my family by reading at dinner. We have read Atlas Shrugged, A God Who Hates, Men in Black, a little fiction. We are now reading Vattel, and finding that his translated writing is brilliant - concise like John Marshall. None of our pundits, and certainly no progressives, will mention Vattel, or Marshall, or Waite. Vattel was clearly a liberal in his day. He was suspicious of clergy who assumed authority based upon their relationship with God. His almost axiomatic construction of
Law of Nations from natural law is a masterpiece. No wonder Franklin, Jay, Adams (both of them), Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Story, ... simply took Vattel as our common law, even though these founders did not at all agree with each other on many issues. Vattel was the common realm in which they agreed.