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To: Las Vegas Ron

That resolution was based on the Tribe/Olson opinion. And it really didn’t make McCain “eligible” to run. The Senate Resolution has no force of law. The matter was never brought to the courts. The definition of “natural born citizen” as it applies to eligibility to serve as President and Vice President has never been resolved.


456 posted on 05/17/2012 2:15:50 PM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar

The Supreme Court has followed the Law of Nations in defining natural-born citizen. They did so in Minor v. Happersett, which was quoted and affirmed in U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark. Eighteen Supreme Court justices agreed on the NBC definition. In the law of nations, it says children born in the Armies of the state are considered born in the country if they are born abroad. This made McCain a natural-born citizen. The Law of Nations definition does NOT, however, make Obama a natural-born citizen and neither do the two Supreme Court cases that were cited. Obama doesn’t even meet the court’s 14th amendment definition.


460 posted on 05/17/2012 2:20:19 PM PDT by edge919
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To: kabar
The definition of “natural born citizen” as it applies to eligibility to serve as President and Vice President has never been resolved.

Minor vs Happersett is the closest settled law that I know of on the subject.

The point was SR 511 and who signed off on it, you're right about force of law of the resolution but why was it necessary to begin with?

Also note the use of the term parents in it.

BTW, meant to say thank you for your service!

462 posted on 05/17/2012 2:21:14 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio - http://www.istandwithrush.org/)
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