Who is “they,”
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Washington, Hamilton, and Madison,for starters.
With the NBC requirement they inserted at John Jay’s prompting, they placed the padlock on POTUS eligibility, ensuring no foreign influence once the founding generation (none of whom were NBCs) had died off.
Who is “they,”Washington, Hamilton, and Madison,for starters.
With the NBC requirement they inserted at John Jay’s prompting, they placed the padlock on POTUS eligibility, ensuring no foreign influence once the founding generation (none of whom were NBCs) had died off.
That is your insane words, not theirs. When it comes to providing a quote of any Framer referring to a two citizen requirement, you have bupkis, because it does not exist.
The NBC requirement is to be a U.S. citizen at birth.
14A states, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside."
ALL PERSONS who are born in the United States, subject to our laws, are born citizens of the United States. Children of accredited diplomats are not subject to ouir laws. There are two classes of citizens, and two only, natural born and naturalized. Naturalization only takes place subsequent to birth, and only to those alien born. Persons who obtain citizenship are the other class. There is no mysterious third class.
Charles Evans Hughes was nominated by the Repuiblican party for President in 1916. An attorney, Breckinridge Long, challenged Hughes’ qualifications in a 1916 Chicago Legal News article, "Is Mr. Charles Evans Hughes a “Naturalborn Citizen” Within the Meaning of the Constitution?"
A Legal Examination of the Subject by Breckinridge Long, of the St. Louis Bar.Whether Mr. Hughes is, or is not, a “natural born” citizen within the meaning of the Constitution, so as to make him eligible or ineligible, to assume the office of President, presents an interesting inquiry.
He was born in this country and is beyond question “native born.” But is there not a distinction between “native born” and “natural born”? At the time he was born his father and mother were subjects of England. His father had not then been naturalized. The day after Mr. Hughes was born his father had a right, as an English subject, to go to the British consul, at New York, and to present his wife and infant and to claim any assistance he might need from the consul as the representative of the English government.
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It must be admitted that a man born on this soil, of alien parents, enjoys a dual nationality and owes a double allegiance. A child born under these conditions has a right to elect what nationality he will enjoy and to which of the two conflicting claims of governmental allegiance he will pay obedience. Now if, by any possible construction, a person at the instant of birth, and for any period of time thereafter, owes, or may owe, allegiance to any sovereign but the United States, he is not a “natural born” citizen of the United States. If his sole duty is not to the United States Government, to the exclusion of all other governments, then, he is not a “natural born” citizen of the United States.
Nobody paid much mind to the crackpot article and Charles Evans Hughes remained on the ballot as the Republican nominee. His father immigrated from Wales; his mother was an American citizen, born in New York. The knowledge that Charles Evans Hughes was born before 14A and had a British father was notorious before the election.
In the case of Ted Cruz, the fact was notorious that his father was Cuban when he was born in Canada to an American citizen. A challenge resulted in this Court Order:
ORDERAND NOW, this 10th day of March, 2016, the petition to set aside the nomination of Ted Cruz as a Candidate for the Republican Nomination for President of the United States is denied. The Secretary of the Commonwealth is directed to certify the name of Ted Cruz to the proper officials for inclusion on the ballot of the Republican Primary to be held on April 26, 2016. Each party is to bear its own costs.
The claims of The Paraclete, God's lawyer, are rejected even when the knowledge of the foreign parent is notorious, even when the birth is in a foreign country to one citizen parent.