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To: Tau Food

” I have been guided by the Constitution and its provision.”

That is what you claim, but that is not the reality. The Constitution clearly states the enumerated powers delegated by the citizens of the United States to the Congress include only the power “To establish an uniform Rule of naturalization. . . .” Nothing in the Constitution grants the Congress the power to legislate natural born citizenship. At the time of the adoption of the Constitution the determination of natural born citizenship was accomplished by reference to natural law in the common law proceedings of the courts of law. Nothing in the Constitution has authorized the Congress any delegated power to legislate changes in the natural law or the Law of Nations with respect to a redefining the ancient qualification of natural born citizenship as a birth with two citizen parents within the jurisdiction of the parents’ sovereign. Instead, the Constitution limits the power of Congress to the naturalization of alien born persons as naturalized citizens, meaning any person not meeting the qualification of birth with two citizen parents in the jurisdiction of the parents’ sovereign, the United States of America.


228 posted on 04/30/2016 8:15:28 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: WhiskeyX
Nothing in the Constitution grants the Congress the power to legislate natural born citizenship.

We agree about that. The Congress can't change the constitutional requirement except by amending the constitution and the Congress cannot do that alone.

Our Constitution directs that the presidents be selected by electors. I believe that those electors are obligated to vote only for candidates who are eligible - 35 years old, natural born citizens, resident for 14 years. I think that they are obligated to consider qualifications. And, I assume that they always have.

241 posted on 04/30/2016 8:29:36 PM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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