Can you tell me which part of the Constitution explains “natural born?
Hint: start with Article II, Section 1 which states, “No Person except a Natural Born Citizen, or ...”
I cannot seem to find a definition of Natural Born, can you?
Tell me what you learned in Civics. I don’t think it was how to define the term. Now tell me who has a screw loose.
“Now tell me who has a screw loose.”
You do, because you are prominently displaying not only your ignorance, you are also flaunting your willful desire to be ignorant.
For example, you were supposed to have learned that the Constitution granted the Congress only the power to legislate, that is to make Federal statutory laws.
Next, the phrase in the Constitution that says “natural born citizen” was supposed to have alerted you to the fact that it is a terminology arising from Natural Law. If you had learned in school to lookup words and word phrases you are not familiar with, you would have soon discovered that Natural Law is the exact opposite of statutory law, also known as positive law. Nowhere in the Constitution does it grant the Congress the power to use statutory law to make natural law, because it would be an oxymoron (nonsensical effort). The two legal concepts are entirely incompatible with each other.
So where does natural law come from? The first natural law arose from unwritten tradition and common law practices. later, some codified laws, the statutes, incorporated some of the principles of natural law, but the natural law itself defined by the general international acceptance of shared principles discussed in legal treatises, international treaties, international and domestic customary law, and in the decisions of courts of law that apply those principles. The principles used to define a natural born subject and natural born citizen are included in those legal treatises and case law precedents.
Confirm this by noting the absence of any statute in the U.S. code where Congress authorized the U.S. Government to birth a natural born citizen. t simply is not there, because the attributes required to qualify as a Constitutional natural born citizen are inherent in the child being born with two citizen parents owing their allegiance solely to the sovereign of the domain in which the birth took place. In other words, by the very nature of the birth, the child can have no other allegiance by the doctrines of jus sanguine or by jus soli. This principle was derived from the restrictions placed on the different forms of Roman citizenship and the citizenship in other cultures following the Roman Empire. This eventually traced forward in time to England’s Naturalization Act of 1541, when England’s Parliament first enacted a statute. This statute that granted English commoner fathers the right to naturalize their children born abroad from England the right to naturalize their alien born children as English subjects, with permanent allegiance to the King of England despite having been born in a foreign sovereign’s domain and allegiance.
While the naturalization Act of 1541 finally granted English commoners the ability to naturalize their alien born children at birth, these children did not enjoy all of the rights and duties enjoyed by the children who were not naturalized, i.e. the natural born children of England. for one difference, these children naturalized form birth wee not allowed to serve on the Privy Council, as military officers, or in other public offices. when it came time to draft the Constitution, the authors decided to continue the English tradition only with respect to the office of the President and the Office of the Vice President.
“I don’t think it was how to define the term.”
Of course it was. Every child is taught to use a dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, and books on the subject matter.
Can you tell me which part of the Constitution explains “natural born?
Hint: start with Article II, Section 1 which states, “No Person except a Natural Born Citizen, or ...”
I cannot seem to find a definition of Natural Born, can you?
Tell me what you learned in Civics. I don’t think it was how to define the term. Now tell me who has a screw loose.
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Qualifications for President and the “Natural Born” Citizenship Eligibility Requirement:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42097.pdf