Amen!!!!
If the Natural Born Citizen requirement for President was intended to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity (keep foreign alleigances from taking over), and if the Framers grandfathered themselves as eligible, then it's reasonable to assume that their Posterity was the intended population to become President.
The Posterity of We the People are the citizen children (our Posterity) of citizen parents (We the People).
Therefore, a natural born citizen is a citizen child of citizen parents, as the intended reason stated in the Preamble.
-PJ
What? Then no tin horn judge could ‘rule’ “No standing”. These in the law business are not about to give up their power to buy and sell rulings. Christ gave US the state of the state of those who sit in the seat of Moses, the lawgiver….
Matthew 23
Right now some municipalities are granting illegal aliens the right to vote. So parts of this country are moving in the opposite direction.
Where is Natural Born Citizen defined?
I would be interested to know what you think about
an Article V Convention of States.
Agree
Yes we should also enforce immigration laws, but we don’t. Obama and Soros money makes sure we don’t.
I agree but the Constitution has been largely ignored since the year it was ratified.
Anytime the congress writes into law the phrase “The secretary shall have the power to write such regulations as necessary to carry out the duties enacted in this law.” The constitution is being ignored and subverted.
No where in the constitution is congress given the power to delagate their responsibility to write the laws of this nation to another branch of government.
If congress had to write the regulations and vote on them we would have a much smaller federal government.
Yes, this must be decided at some point and hopefully with a court following the Constitution, not public opinion. A person born with dual loyalties, born of non-citizen parents, cannot be a natural born citizen. While tradition says follow the father, that law changed in the 60s and commonsense says to also follow the citizenship of the mother (besides we don’t always know who the father is), so long as the kid does not have dual citizenship. Yes, Obama disqualified, Rafael Edward Cruz (aka Lyn’ Ted), Little Marco, and Nimarata Nikki Randhawa Haley are also disqualified. So is Jose or Mohammad born at the border of illegal aliens.
My veneration of the Framers implies they didn’t add this clause intending it to mean nothing. Even though some today prefer it to mean nothing rather than pushing or deciphering other meanings. I much doubt it was intended to bar ithe presidency to those born via C-Section, although that would comport with one meaning of “natural born.” The clause reportedly engendered little discussion at the time, suggesting that its meaning was generally understood and accepted by the Framers. Which would fit with an interpretation derived from the Common Law of the time. To clarify its meaning in advance rather than to wait to rule someone already ‘elected’ was thusly ineligible via still controversial fine print would be prudent. Yet the courts remain reluctant to address the question. Some clever legal way to encourage SCOTUS to rule, ideally without any current candidacy in question, and without affecting the mostly wise policy of SCOTUS not ruling unless necessary.
This was resolved with the Senate Resolution over McCain’s candidacy. The Senate defined an NBC as ‘having 2 US citizen parents at time of birth, regardless of location’ (2007?)
Yes and the secretaries of each state have that obligation already to determine if candidates submitted by the parties meet the qualifications. Pelosi was one of the signators when Obama ran; I think the he of the DNC was the other.
When Eldridge Clever submitted for president, he was asked for a birth certificate and found to be too young and not put on the ballot.
The secretary of state in Cal refused to ask Obama for his BC despite the numerous claims going around, including court cases, he was not born in the uS. Also his father was british citizen making him ineligible.
As we saw with Obama, NO ONE requires proof of age, residency, or citizenship. Just a memo from Nancy Pelosi that Obama was a “natural born citizen”. How the hell could she know?
Well, he looks old enough. He’s from Chicago, right? I saw many DIFFERENT COPIES of his birth certificate on the Internet.
"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 Commander in Chief of the American army shall not be given to nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen. " .....John Jay letter to George Washington dated 25 July 1787