But then there’s that darn 14th Amendment (with two little words: “All Persons,” ratified in 1868 which changed everything. And all it was originally intended to do was to allow the Radical Republicans to punish the Confederacy for losing the War Between the States.
The Roberts Court (John Roberts administered the Oath of Office to Obama) is not going to go for it. While Bader-Ginsberg, Breyer, Kagan and Sotomayor are very open to using international law as a basis pf determining American legal decisions, Alito, Kennedy, Roberts, Scalia and Thomas are loathe to rely on a law book written by a Swiss citizen who was an expert in international law as the basis for current, 21st Century US law.
That is why not one of the nine Justices on the current Supreme Court has ever asked for a rebuttal brief from Obama’s attorneys on any of the 13 Obama eligiblity appeals that have thus far reached the High Court.
The way Petitions for Writs of Certioari work at the Supreme Court is that if any of the nine Justices is interested in an appeal, they read the Petition of the Appellant and then they request an opposing brief from the appellee and the appeal is placed on the Justices’ “discuss list.”
None of the 13 Obama eligibility lawsuits has ever reached the “discuss list.”
CHAPTER XIX
Of our Native Country, and several Things that relate to it.
The citizens are the members of the civil society: bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages.
The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens.
As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights.
The society is supposed to desire this, in consequence of what it owes to its own preservation; and it is presumed, as matter of course, that each citizen, on entering into society, reserves to his children the right of becoming members of it.
The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; and these become true citizens merely by their tacit consent.
I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country.
But then there’s that darn 14th Amendment (with two little words: “All Persons,”
Rep. John Bingham of Ohio — considered the “father of the Fourteenth Amendment” — in the House on March 9, 1866:
“I find no fault with the introductory clause, which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parentS NOT OWING ALLEGIANCE to any FOREIGN SOVEREIGNTY is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen...”
(emphases mine)
Did not Obama’s putative FATHER owe ALLEGIANCE to a FOREIGN SOVEREIGNTY at his(Obama’s)birth?
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