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To: centurion316
Ahh yes centurion318. The Pennsylvania court reinterpreted the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions in Minor v. Happersett, in Wong Kim Ark, and reinterpreted the 14th Amendment in the process, since nowhere does the 14th Amendment mention natural born citizenship. The Supreme Court is obviously, by your declarations, a "Birther Conspiracy." We all know that the media and hundreds of Obama supporters and Cruz supporters on this blog have straightened out Chief Justice Morrison Waite, who wrote the unanimous decision nailing down the common law explained in The Venus, 12 U.S. 253, 1814, by Chief Justice Marshall. Justice Waite said:

The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.
The 14th Amendment, which did not and could not alter the Minor definition of natural born citizen provided a "uniform rule for naturalization" , based upon Article 1 Section 8, so that some of those who were aliens or foreigners, as Cruz, Rubio, Jindal, and Haley would have been in 1868, are now naturalized at birth. No law amended the Constitution or reinterpreted the Minor confirmation of the common law definition for natural born citizenship, and only the Supreme Court has the authority to replace Minor v. Happersett. For those who may still be confused by the 1s Congress, 1790 Naturalization Act, that was the only time Congress ever mentioned natural born citizenship in U.S. Code - a law or act. The 1790 Act was entirely rescinded in 1795 and "natural born citizen" replaced with "citizen". it was, after all, a "Naturalization Act". We see the effect of our corrupted institutions of education which fail, even in law schools, to communicate our legal history. The Constitution doesn't have term definitions because the meanings of words evolve - change - over time. Madison explained that its meanings would be lost with language changes if it were not construed in the common law and language familiar to its framers. That is why Chief Justice Waite points out "...with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar."

The author of the 14th Amendment's first section, the citizenship clause, explicitly told the House, in 1866:

I find no fault with the introductory clause [S 61 Bill], 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….,/I>
Pennsylvania cites no Constitutional definition. Their Supreme Court demonstrates the corruption of our legal system. They know the truth, just as Ted Cruz knows the truth. His constitutional law professor Larry Tribe confirmed as much in the Boston Globe on Jan 11 of this year. After Obama we are being treated to politicians taking advantage of the ignorance and/or impotence of the public. One can only guess that such a compromised politician, rather like Justice Roberts, can then be counted on to do what he/she is told by those pulling the strings.

It should not be forgotten that the Democrats have standing to dismiss an ineligible president or vice president, and have s significant majority on the appendage of the Democrat party called the Supreme Court. The only resson they might not is because with Cruz, and his previous positions on immigration, and Heidi's executive position at the Council on Foreign Relations, they may be getting just what they want. Were they to challenge, they would need to overturn the 14th Amendment, Minor, Wong Kim Ark, Perkins v. Elg; Article II Section 1 clause 6, if anyone still cares, gives congress the authority to chose Mitt Romney or Jeb Bush or Karl Rove, who certainly knows Washington politics.

223 posted on 04/01/2016 9:47:07 PM PDT by Spaulding
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To: Spaulding

Take your argument to court. I’m very interested in how the courts deal with a case that decided that women have no constitutional right to vote (Minor v. Happersett). Moreover, the quote that is often cited in these discussions has nothing to do with the decision in the case, it is a part of the facts of the case and was inserted to inform that all parties had stipulated to the fact that the woman in the case was a U.S. citizen born on U.S. soil, it was about a particular one individual. Using that case in court will get you laughed out of the courtroom.

You might take a look at this link, it will help you to read Supreme Court decision.

http://www.americanbar.org/publications/insights_on_law_andsociety/13/fall_2012/how_to_read_a_ussupremecourtopinion.html

I have learned the hard way that relying on any information that comes from the Birther crowd is a very hazardous course. They are crackpots and frequently wrong.


224 posted on 04/02/2016 5:54:46 AM PDT by centurion316
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