Um, We The People have this piece of paper called the Constitution which stipulates that someone applying for the job of president MUST be eligible by the Constitutionally specified means. Sorry to blow out your little candle, but the burden of proof is squarely on the applicant not the people, to prove eligibility. Try thinking of the issue aqs a man applying for a job that has stipulated requirements for security clearance which he must provide or be ineligible.
When that standard is flipped on its head the way you tried to do--asserting We The People must prove a candidate ineligible, the Constitution is voided. Don't expect the SCOTUS to go along with that.
Though mine is but one voice among thousands writing, here's the letter I sent to the SCOTUS in that regard:
To the Honorable and very highly esteemed, Justice Clarence Thomas:
We The People are literally hiring a man to be President of OUR United States, thus We The People have the authority to demand Barack Obama prove his eligibility. The citizen cannot prove a negative; the Burden of Proof regarding citizenship has always been on Mister Obama. And he has never met it.
There appear to be two items at work in the perniciously lingering issue of Barack Hussein Obama’s certification of natural born citizenship and thus qualification to ascend to the office of President: Standing, and Burden of Proof.
With regards to the first, Standing: several courts are dismissing cases from American citizens demanding Barack Obama prove eligibility based on lack of plaintiffs' standing. This is outrageous! Each and every American citizen has standing to demand through the courts that a candidate prove his eligibility for elected office. For any court to rule otherwise is a travesty!
For the courts to suggest that The People must go through Congress or the Secretaries of the Several States to force production of proof of eligibility smacks of obstruction of justice. These are the same courts which do not hesitate to manufacture "rights" out of whole cloth. We The People are not asking that this man be subjected to a kangaroo court such as you endured, Your Honor, at the hands of Congressional devils. But We demand that Barack Obama prove his eligibility to even run for the office! Every document a fraudulent President signs will be a Constitutional travesty and an outrage.
Regarding the second, Burden of Proof: this is always on the candidate, for any position. Congress and the courts do not have the authority to withhold Mr. Obama's qualifications or keep from the People a factor of ineligibility; nor does Congress have the authority to eschew Constitutionally defined requirements except by a well defined Constitutionally defined process. By the Tenth Amendment it is a right reserved to The People to demand to see a Presidential candidate's qualifications.
If this is a Constitutional Republic still, then the people in government work for me and 299,000,000 other sovereigns of the Republic. We ought have the right to assurance that this Chicago thug is at least eligible to run for the office. Please, Sir, see to the appeals from We The People regarding this matter. [See please, docket # 08A407 ]
Highest Regards,
i agree with Scythian
there is no court that will a US Congressman, US Senator or Us President to prove his/her citizenship.
That work is left to FEC, Parties and the State Govts that certify deaths and births.
so if DEMs say he is, Hawaii say he is, i dont see an issue.
for me the issue is a “clear clarification of the NBC” issue. if SCOTUS punts, it means Obama is NBC.