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The article is based on a summary of a testimony exchange between Dr. Ron Paul and Scott Alvarez, an attorney of house counsel to the Federal Reserve at a hearing before House Financial Services Subcommittee on Monetary Policy. The actual transactions involving ownership of US Gold which were implemented at the time the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was adopted have been shrouded in an effort to obfuscate the long term rights of the parties. The historical received wisdom has been to believe that the Fed owned the US gold subject to a right in the Treasury to get the...

The legal issues regarding how ineligibility to act as President under Article II, Sec. 1 of the Constitution might be challenged are the subject of a number of posts. There is, I think, broad misunderstanding of some elements of the Berg proceeding as well as some of the other actions. Two articles in the on line version of the Michigan Law Review summarize, the fundamental legal issue (Lawrence B. Solum, Commentary, Originalism and the Natural Born Citizen Clause, 107 Mich. L. Rev. First Impressions 22 (2008)), www.michiganlawreview.org/firstimpressions/vol107/solum.pdf, and procedural issues regarding possible challenge of ineligible candidates (Daniel P. Tokaji, Commentary,...

This is to summarize the law on two issues: One, Citizenship of a person, one of whose parents is a Citizen, the other an alien; and, two, eligibility of a person born outside the geographical limits of the fifty states to serve as President of the United States under Article II, Sec. 1, Par. 4 of the U S Constitution. This is addressed to Obama's status if he was born in Kenya and to John McCain's status on the record birth in Panama. I do not intend to address any of the collateral factual issues. I take it as a...