reply to post by Hendrix92TheUniverse
how can crap like this even be allowed on the internet. just a bunch of mindless sheeple.
Originally posted by Illusionsaregrander
reply to post by ericsnow
The guy in the video is a con artist.
For John McCain, there were two questions that had to be answered. BECAUSE HE WAS NOT BORN ON AMERICAN SOIL. If his parents were Mexican, and he was born on an overseas US military base, he would not be a natural born citizen.
Because he was not born on American soil, they had to look to the citizenship of his parents. Obama was born on US soil and is a citizen no matter what.
en.wikipedia.org...
Statute, by birth within U.S.
As of 2006, United States Federal law () defines ten categories of person who are United States citizens from birth. According to that law, the following acquire citizenship at birth:
* "a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof"
* "a person born in the United States to a member of an Indian, Eskimo, Aleutian, or other aboriginal tribe" (see Indian Citizenship Act of 1924).
* "a person of unknown parentage found in the United States while under the age of five years, until shown, prior to his attaining the age of twenty-one years, not to have been born in the United States"
* "a person born in an outlying possession of the United States of parents one of whom is a citizen of the United States who has been physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of one year at any time prior to the birth of such person"
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Originally posted by mbkennel
Of course Congress has power to make explicit or elaborate on the meaning and specific application of the Constitution, which was intentionally not excessively prescriptive except in a few areas. (Your hypothetical example would violate other parts of the Constitution.)
Congress could make a law that all left-handed midgets born between 3 and 3:07 AM in Tibet are U.S. citizens from birth (hence natural born), and one of these people could become President upon reaching the age of 35. Is this law legal? Yes. Will such a law ever be passed? Obviously not.
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;
Originally posted by Hendrix92TheUniverse
Originally posted by jam321
Correct me if I am wrong.
But wasn't senate resolution 511 NONBINDING?
That means Congress never passed a law defining what a natural born American is.
Looks like 100% is headed toward 0% proof.
en.wikipedia.org...
The resolution means nothing, the Constitution states that both parents must be U.S. citizens, and Obama's father was a Kenyan, a british protectorate at the time, there Obama's father was British, and not a U.S. citizen.
Do your damn homework!