As I said, you have neither actually read Mark's books to be able to cite the sources he cites in them. If you had, you would know that my research cites his sources. The only difference, I cite his sources without political bias, using the author's words in context so they speak for themselves.
So long drone as I see that if Mark said it was good for you to jump off a cliff, you would actually do it. How sad.
I've read it, and listened to it a couple of times, although that was sometime late 2009.
I dusted it off again, and I find pages 200-201 about Judges to be something we need to do.
Page 202 about Immigration is what we're fighting about with the "Establishment Republicans", right now.
Pages 204-205, hits the nail on the head, and must be done.
But I'm not going to sit here and transcribe Mark Levin's book.
Somewhere around here, I've got his book on
"Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America".
But I've got to find it again, and I just can't lay my hands on it, right now.
But back to the issue of Marco Rubio's citizenship, I think
DiogenesLamp has a better response than I can think of.
Reading stuff written in the founding era leads me to believe they may have handled it in the same way.
Look at these comments from General George Washington for example.
“You are not to enlist any person who is not an American born, unless such person has a wife and family, and is a settled resident of this country.” George Washington, Given at headquarters, at Cambridge, this 10 July, 1775.
“You will therefore send me none but natives, and men of some property, if you have them.
I must insist that in making this choice you give no intimation of my preference for natives, as I do not want to create any individual distinction between them and foreigners.”
“The General has great Reason; and is highly displeased, with the Negligence and Inattention of those Officers,
who have placed as Centries at the out-posts, Men with whose Character they are not acquainted.
He therefore orders, that for the future, no Man shall be appointed to those important Stations, who is not a Native of this Country,
or has a Wife, or Family in it, to whom he is known to be attached.
This Order is to be consider’d as a standing one and the Officers are to pay obedience to it at their peril.” - 11 Fox, Adj. Gen. of the day. 9
Not conclusive, but indicative. Other quotes showing Washington's disdain for foreigners here.
Another example would be this excerpt from the 1783 version of the Virginia Citizenship act.
and that all persons, other than alien enemies, who shall migrate into this State,
and shall before some Court of Record give satisfactory proof by oath (or being Quakers of Menonists by affirmation) that they intend to reside therein,
and also take the legal oath, or affirmation, for giving assurance of fidelity to the Commonwealth
(which oaths or affirmations the Clerk of the Court shall enter on record,
and give a certificate thereof to the person taking the fame, for which he shall receive the fee of one dollar)
shall be entitled to all the rights, privileges, and advantages of citizens,
except that they shall not be capable of election or appointment to any office, legislative, executive, or judiciary,
until an actual residence in the State of two years from the time of taking such oaths or affirmations as aforesaid,
nor until the shall have evinced a permanent attachment to the State, by having intermarried with a citizen of this Commonwealth,
or a citizen of any other of the United States, or purchased lands to the value of one hundred pounds therein.
My understanding is that Rubio's Father (already a long time resident) had initiated the paperwork prior to Mark's Birth to become a citizen.
His mother had already become a citizen prior to his birth.
Given that the mother had already become a citizen, and the father had filed to become one, it is evident that the Father intended, and indeed did became a citizen.
It is apparent to me that the family met the spirit of the law if not the letter.
That his father didn't complete the process before his birth is in my mind a technicality.
And for
DiogenesLamp;
Sorry to pull you into this debate, but your post was well said.
I 'm tired of answering these charges, and I'm not a lawyer.
Please fell free to join it.
Goodnight to all.