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To: ChicagoConservative27

SOMEONE PLEASE TELL TRUMP THAT NIKKI IS NOT NATURAL BORN CITIZEN

OBAMA was NOT

Harris is NOT

WE HAVE TO GET BACK TO THE CONSTITUTION.

Article 2

Section 1

Clause 5


22 posted on 12/22/2023 6:02:43 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles

Just stop.


80 posted on 12/22/2023 6:26:36 PM PST by bwest
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To: ridesthemiles

You actually believe this story?


94 posted on 12/22/2023 6:33:17 PM PST by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: ridesthemiles
Last week I found this little nugget of an oblique reference to natural-born citizens in Federalist #68, by Alexander Hamilton, discussing the Electoral College. It was assumed that the Electors, separated across all of the states, would investigate and decline to vote for "creature[s]" of "foreign powers."

Federalist #68 (Alexander Hamilton):

Nothing was more to be desired than that every practicable obstacle should be opposed to cabal, intrigue, and corruption. These most deadly adversaries of republican government might naturally have been expected to make their approaches from more than one querter, but chiefly from the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils. How could they better gratify this, than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy of the Union? But the convention have guarded against all danger of this sort, with the most provident and judicious attention.

What could Hamilton possibly have meant by "creatures of their own" raised by foreign powers?

What did Hamilton mean by "the convention have guarded against all danger of this sort" if not for both the natural-born citizen requirement for the President and the original intent of the Electoral College?

Earlier in Federalist #68, Hamilton writes:

It was equally desirable, that the immediate election should be made by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice. A small number of persons, selected by their fellow-citizens from the general mass, will be most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite to such complicated investigations.

Today's Electoral College is a rubber-stamp for the candidates, pre-selected state-wide slates of party insiders that vote the Electoral College allocation for the candidate.

What the Framers intended was for non-government citizens to be selected in each locality (Congressional district) to meet at the designated time, to "analyze the qualities" of the candidates, and "possess information and discernment requisite to such complicated investigations."

In other words, the Hamilton expected the Electoral College to review the qualifications of the candidates, weed out the reprobates and foreigners, and then vote for the person whom they thought was best "adapted to the station" to be President.

These were the "guards" of "provident and judicious attention" that Hamilton was referring to, that would be on the lookout for "all dangers of this sort."

The biggest danger, enough of a concern to be mentioned in Federalist #68, was "creatures" of foreign powers becoming President.

-PJ

114 posted on 12/22/2023 6:47:28 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: ridesthemiles

WE HAVE TO GET BACK TO THE CONSTITUTION.>>>> Well if i were to pick priorities. i would choose legal courts, can’t take property without due process. then restore wages to be directly taxed and not called income for the sake of a corrupt gov. then invalidate 90% of what people call the federal government. just as a start. who ever runs the current crap can be a zombie.


185 posted on 12/22/2023 9:23:27 PM PST by kvanbrunt2
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