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To: seekthetruth
Right now, I have more faith in Leo Donafrio’s case before Justice Thomas this coming week and Alan Keyes case in the SC of California. Berg's case being heard before Donafrio’s may help to bring more attention to both Donafrio’s case and the Keyes case.

So do I.

Donofrio's case is that to be natural born you have to have two citizen parents AND be born in the US. Therefore neither Obama nor McCain nor Calero (socialist party candidate?) are eligible for the Presidency.

He says there is a long history of law supporting this contention, although I believe it is unlikely to apply to McCain, specifically because of the military aspect of it. The only exception seems to be the Naturalization Act of 1790, which made almost anyone born in America (I think) natural born, but which was repealed and replaced with the Naturalization Act of 1795, just five years later, which made them citizens only, but not natural born.

He also points to the fourteenth amendment, section 1, which reads:

Section. 1. 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. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
where it states who is a citizen, NOT who is a natural born citizen, although it would have been a simple matter to insert the words "natural born" if that had been the intent.

Therefore, Donofrio appears on solid legal ground, at least until we hear the counterargument.

I believe this is why the clerk of the Supreme Court has been behaving in such an odd, possibly illegal, manner regarding Donofrio's suit, refusing to pass on Donofrio's filing to the appropriate justices. The powers that be don't want the Supreme Court to make a decision and somehow they've gotten a hold on the clerk.

Donofrio doesn't have a standing problem, as Berg does, because the Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey, whose decision he is appealing, has already conceded he has standing. Thus, if the Supreme Court looks at the case and rules in Donofrios favor, Obama will lose New Jersey's electoral votes (I am not sure here) and Obama will be exposed to the whole world in a way that even the MSM will not be able to cover up.

The reason McCain would be excepted has to do with the origin of the natural born requirement in the concept of "undivided loyalty to the King". I believe there are cases going back in English law where this question was ruled on and it was decided that it would be ridiculous for the children of military stationed abroad not to be considered of "undivided loyalty". It won't make McCain President, but at least it means he's eligible.

All this IMHO.

1,336 posted on 11/16/2008 10:37:48 AM PST by solfour
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WHAT HAPPENED IN THE DAVIS/HI CASE?
1,337 posted on 11/16/2008 10:43:14 AM PST by hoosiermama (Berg is a liberal democrat. Keyes is a conservative. Obama is bringing us together already!)
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To: solfour

Yes, I do believe McCain does qualify due to both his parents being US citizens and employed and stationed by the US Government in Panama at the time of McCain’s birth.


1,341 posted on 11/16/2008 10:56:00 AM PST by seekthetruth
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