This was recently posted on The Conservative Treehouse:
Sen. Trumbull, framer of 14th Amend. – “The provision is, that ‘all persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens.’ That means ‘subject to the complete jurisdiction thereof.’ What do we mean by ‘complete jurisdiction thereof?’ Not owing allegiance to anybody else. That is what it means.”
John Bingham, framer of 14th Amend. – “I do not stand here to cavil with men who are not read in the horn-books of the law; but I assert that every man born within the limits of the Republic, or under its flag at sea, of parents who were not the subjects of any other sovereignty, are, in the very words of the Constitution, natural born citizens”
Rep Bingham quote is from Cong. Globe, 37th, 2nd Sess., 407 (1862)
Sen Trumbull quote is from Cong. Globe, 39th, 1st Sess., 2893 (1866)
There is no direct link to the pages but they can be accessed by navigating from here:
https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwcglink.html
Parents naturalized years after her birth.
[I have not checked it out personally.]
WIKI
In 1875, Chief Justice Waite, in the voting-rights case Minor v. Happersett, stated:
“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. Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-born-citizen_clause_(United_States)
NBCers make up crap as they go along.
I’ve even had one say that both parents must also be an NBC in order for the “anchor baby” to be eligible.
Yeah? Then Trump himself is ineligible as his mother was born in Scotland.
Look. The real reason why NBCers confuse the facts is due to their racism.
Nikki, Kamala, Obama, Vivek, etc.... All bad.
Arthur, McCain, Cruz, Trump, white people, etc. All good
A week ago the anti-Trump contingent here bought the BS that Trump was supposedly about to choose Nikki as VP.
Note: You will have to activate audio, at bottom.
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Trump is alluding to the fact that the viganal Nikki is not eligible to be Vice President
Telling it like it is. 😉
I must admit that this parallels what I think of John Avlon in particular and CNN in general:
"Fool me once, shame on me;
Fool me twice, f@ck you!, CNN (and little Johnny A, too)"