“Unfortunately, I have concluded that the battle is well and truly lost. At this point resistance is futile.”
Grandmother always reminded us “can’t never did.” Persistence sometimes pays off, and only the persistent win, because those who quit are already for most intents and purposes lost and almost as good as dead. This was also George Patton’s point of view. We are in our current dilemma because too many people quit the cause of protecting and defending the Constitution and our free society begun by a hopeful group of Founding Fathers and Founding Mothers bearing the burdens at home. It waste valuable time, it is aggravating, and it is far better than fighting and dying in muddy trenches, cold stratospheric air, and beneath the waves of the sea for something far less worthy in the service of a totalitarian regime.
Something else you may or may not consider.
Your argument, based on English and French writers, both of whom were quoted during our founding as in the Law Of Nations, by Vatel, only serve as influences to the Founders, not as the law of the land.
If we were to take your argument as 100% valid and correct, then we would need a SCOTUS decision or a written statute enacted into law that creates a third class of citizenship, where one is not natural born, not naturalized, but is a citizen of birth only, not requiring naturalization.
It follows then that Ted Cruz would be of this new category of citizenship as would numerous others, including one or two presidents, if I recall correctly.
But there is not a third category.....is there?
For your argument to have merit, there must be.
I suspect we will see this argument made and set aside for many more generations, should we actually survive the present one.
I have been alive long enough to see it made many times and usually if not entirely by the left wingers against conservatives. Last made against Romney, if I recall.
I find that Trumps use of this argument is telling, and it does not bode well for a Trump presidency that is expected by his supporters to save this country from the left.
“Very troubling”, as trump has said...so I take his own words and throw them back in his face...