Posted on 01/13/2024 4:56:48 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man
There is a reason the Founding Fathers attached the requirement of being a “natural born citizen” to the President (and, with the passage of the Twelfth Amendment, the Vice President) only and no other federal offices. The idea was to elevate the threshold for the highest elected political office of the land; notably, that language is absent in Article I, which stipulates that lawmakers running for the House or Senate need only be “citizens” to qualify. The early debates surrounding the passage of the Constitution add support for the view that the Framers wanted to exclude “the admission of foreigners into the administration of our national government,” as John Jay wrote to George Washington in July of 1787.
A central concern for the architects of the nascent American republic was that only the most qualified statesmen be eligible for the country’s highest office. In his Commentaries, Joseph Story elaborated that “[i]t is indispensable… that the president should be a natural born citizen of the United States… [T]he general propriety of the exclusion of foreigners, in common cases, will scarcely be doubted by any sound statesman.” Joseph Story, who enjoyed over a thirty-year reign as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, famously elaborated the principles of the republicanism of Alexander Hamilton and John Marshall well into the mid-nineteenth century. His Commentaries specifically distinguished between natural born and naturalized citizens, the latter of whom were ineligible to run for president, despite qualifying for the privileges of citizenship. This view is supported by the best legal commentary of the day, Emmerich de Vattel’s Law of Nature and of Nations, a contemporaneous authority for the Founding Fathers on questions of citizenship. de Vattel’s work states that “[t]he natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens.”
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neither was Obama..................
Also true re Vivek R.!
When there’s already been a coup, they clearly don’t care to follow ANY laws or rules in their war on conservatives, Christians and people they don’t like.
This is an entirely hopeless legal case that nevertheless has a following here on FR. The courts will rule that anyone who was a US citizen at birth is a natural-born citizen.
And you would be wrong
Keep trying though. That seems the only thing you got
No amount of cracker-barrel lawyering is going to make “natural born” exclude any candidate who is a citizen by virtue of being born within the borders of the United States.
She was born in South Carolina. She is a Natural born citizen...i.e., she does not have to be naturalized.
(She was born in South Carolina. She is a Natural born citizen.)
Bull! She’s an anchor baby via the 14th Amendment. Her parents weren’t legal citizens when she was born. Read the article. All of it. She wasn’t born with sole allegiance to the United States.
yep
Neither was Henry Kissinger who was 4th in line.
This definition has been moot since 1968.
Kissinger would have just been skipped, as he was ineligible.
He was asked once about it and he quipped:
Maybe I can’t be president, but I could be Emperor!..............
No he wasn’t
It prohibited Obama, but did that matter?
Winston Churchill’s mother was an American................
He was Secretary of State under Nixon. That is 4th in line for the presidency.
It’s pretty simple. Both you parents must be US citizens at the time of your birth.
Too bad we don’t have the rule of law anymore.
Also true about the fraud aka Barak Obama. But that sure didn’t stop the democrat communists from certifying him did it? So you have got to ask yourself. Constitution? What is that.
Nimrata was crushed by DeSantis on Wednesday. Except for leftist cash, she is finished.
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