'So then, I believe that I have a fairly solid case in saying that the authority a commander has is indeed derived from their superior, all the way to the president who, as Commander-in-Chief, derives his authority from the Constitution.
Of course The Supreme Court of the United States has never applied the term “natural born citizen” to any other category than “those born in the country of parents who are citizens thereof”.
There is not a single member of the military serving today that is doing so lawfully. They serve the Usurper, not the United States of America.
Ah, the experiment part is in the questions asked. I wanted a very solid ground on which to base it, and further arguments, upon.
>Of course The Supreme Court of the United States has never applied the term “natural born citizen” to any other category than “those born in the country of parents who are citizens thereof”.
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>There is not a single member of the military serving today that is doing so lawfully. They serve the Usurper, not the United States of America.
That is actually very much the reason I got out: it became apparent to me that the service as-a-whole was not concerned with upholding their oaths to the Constitution. (The other major factor was that I was tired of being lied to, especially on the personal level: "you only need to pass your PT test and you'll get your promotion" -- and then they promote a guy to SGT who had been in as long as I'd been a SPC.)