- You absolutely fail to distinguish between citizen and natural born citizen, and this is the entire core of your mistaken arguments. It is a well-known concept that everyone knows, that everyone has always known and yet you want to revise our entire history to excuse your favorite candidate. You have rounded up every mention of citizen in every document no matter how unrelated and through it into a blender and hit puree. Unfortunately the result is a thick gooey shake that is totally undrinkable.
- Nowhere do you present a list of previous Presidents, Candidates, or persons running for nomination that could be examples of your premise that foreigners and partial foreigners can run for President.
- I gave you the information about Madison himself striking the 1790 NBC language for the express purpose of preventing people such as yourself from making the mistake you continue to make. That mistake appears again, just above in #128. Even Madison cannot convince you of what the Founders meant?
- You are continually promoting Congress as a body empowered to define NBC, a term used in the Constitution authored by We The People, not We The Congress. A simple mental exercise should convince you how wrong this is. Can Congress free the slaves and make them NBC? Nope. Never happened. Can a law redefine High Crimes and Misdemeanors? Of course not. That undefined phrase is only considered by the Congress at impeachment time, and not any way tied to what particular statutory law exists at the time. Just think about allowing them the ability to define Arms and Speech and Press as well. This is downright dangerous and that alone should give you pause. If you bothered to read the Federalist Papers you would realize the intricate set of checks and balances that they designed should not be circumvented by you because of your passion of the moment.
- You toss in appeals to authority to wonderful people like Sowell and formerly sane people like Levin, but for what purpose? Notice one thing, you are going to those who took a pass or outright surrendered to political correctness on candidate Dumbo, the FIRST known half-foreigner ever running for President, and they are now completely locked into their mistake. So today, faced with an even more obvious egregious case, another half-foreigner but this time born in a foreign country, what else are they gonna do? They blew it before bigtime and will naturally blow it again now.
May I ask you something? Do you agree that the President has higher qualifications than all other offices?
Is there any difference to you between citizen and natural born citizen?
Are you aware of where the clause originated and why?
Article II Facts :: Constitutional Convention.
Alexander Hamilton's suggested presidential eligibility clause:
No person shall be eligible to the office of President of the United States unless he be now a Citizen of one of the States, or hereafter be born a Citizen of the United States.
John Jay wrote a letter to General Washington, the President of the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention ..
"Permit me to hint, whether it would be wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expressly that the Command in Chief of the American army shall not be given to nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen."
Surely you see that the affirmative change from citizen to natural born citizen carries weight and substance that a mere "citizen" will not suffice. And surely you see that the object is removing "foreigners" from the pool of people.
As the Supreme Court has punted this back to us to kick around you most certainly *do* have the opportunity to vote for a foreigner for President, even if they were born in Afghanistan, Russia and Iran. How awesome. However, you cannot rewrite our historical knowledge. That's just plain insulting. Those who are seeking approbation for their choice of voting for a foreigner should not expect it. Just say it loudly and proudly that you are voting for the FIRST ever foreign born candidate for President and stop beating around the bush.