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Originally posted by CornShucker
[ Doesn't anyone have the curiosity to examine anything on their own anymore??
Arthur was born in Vermont to a Vermont-born mother and a father from Ireland, who was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1843, 14 years after Chester was born.
All Presidents born before July 4, 1776, were born British “natural born subjects.” Those early presidents were naturalized to become “Citizens of the United States” through the Declaration of Independence and by adhering to the American Revolution. These presidents included Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Adams, Jackson, and Harrison. Article II, Section 1, Clause 5, allowing anyone who was a “Citizen of the United States” at the time of the adoption of the Constitution to be eligible to be President, grandfathered these presidents to be eligible. All presidents born after 1787, except for Chester Arthur and Barack Obama, met the “natural born Citizen” criteria, i.e., born on U.S. soil to a mother and father who were themselves U.S. citizens at the time of the President’s birth. Neither Arthur nor Obama were “natural born Citizens” at the time of birth. Arthur was born to an alien father who also made his U.S. citizen mother an alien. Obama was born to a non-U.S. citizen father who never became a U.S. citizen and, being here only on a temporary student visa, was never even an immigrant. There have been 46 Americans that have served as Vice-President (not including Mr. Biden). Ten were born before 1787. All Vice-Presidents born after 1787, except for Chester Arthur, met the “natural born Citizen” criteria. Fourteen Vice Presidents have gone on to be President.
Let us now examine how President James Buchanan, who had an Irish father, Woodrow Wilson, who had an English mother, and Herbert Hoover, who had a Canadian mother, were “natural born Citizens.” As we have seen, President Thomas Jefferson, whose mother was born in England, and Andrew Jackson, whose parents were both born in Ireland, were grandfathered to be eligible to be President. Chester Arthur, not being either grandfathered or a “natural born Citizen,” will be treated separately.
When determining whether a child born in the U.S. is an Article II “natural born Citizen,” the question is not whether the parents of the child are foreign born. Rather, the question is whether they are “citizens of the United States” at the time of the child’s birth in the United States. In Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162, 167-68 (1875), our U.S. Supreme Court, providing the same definition of a “natural born citizen” as did Emer de Vattel in his The Law of Nations, Section 212 (1758), but without citing Vattel, and not in any way referring to the English common law, stated:
Well, to start with, judges have no standing to hear cases in regards to the President's eligibility
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
Maybe this is the real reason the judges won't hear any of the cases
Did you see where I pointed out the connection of the Judge who wrote the opinion for Wong Kim Ark having been an appointee of Chester Arthur,
the only other President to not be natural born...
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
reply to post by flyswatter
Well, to start with, judges have no standing to hear cases in regards to the President's eligibility
And this is the reason Judge Malihi took the Georgia ballot case even
to be in the office he is in right now. The one thing the judges DO have standing on is Obama's eligibility to be on a ballot in the state which the case is being brought in.
while President Obama and atty refused to be there?
None of the testifying witnesses provided persuasive testimony. Moreover, theCourt finds that none of the written submissions tendered by Plaintiffs have probative value. Given the unsatisfactory evidence presented by the Plaintiffs, the Court concludes that Plaintiffs' claims are not persuasive
For the purposes of this analysis, this Court considered that President BarackObama was born in the United States. Therefore, as discussed in Arkeny, he became a citizen at birth and is a natural born citizen. Accordingly, CONCLUSION President Barack Obama is eligible as a candidate for the presidential primary election under O.C.G.A. § 21-2-5(b)
Based upon the language of Article II, Section 1, Clause 4 and the guidance provided by Wong Kim Ark, we conclude that persons born within the borders of the United States are 'natural born Citizens' for Article II, Section 1 purposes, regardless of the citizenship of their parents.
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
Some legal scholars, opposed to the idea that jus soli should apply to the children of undocumented immigrants, have argued that the Wong Kim Ark precedent does not apply when alien parents are in the country illegally. John C. Eastman, a former dean of the Chapman University School of Law, has argued that Wong Kim Ark does not entitle U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants to gain automatic citizenship because, in his opinion, being subject to the jurisdiction of the United States requires a status of "full and complete jurisdiction" that does not apply to aliens who are in the country illegally.[167] Eastman further argues that the Wong Kim Ark decision was fundamentally flawed in the way it dealt with the concept of jurisdiction,[168] and that the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924—which followed Wong Kim Ark—would not have been necessary if Congress had believed "that the Citizenship Clause confers citizenship merely by accident of birth."[
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
reply to post by ThirdEyeofHorus
"We" is everyone who has pointed out your errors.
Why don't you just acknowledge that you are wrong?
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
My error was in forgetting the Georgia case.
no court will take the cases of Obama's BC;
What court has heard any Obama case? ;
No, you are flat out wrong. No court has taken any birther case on the issue of Obama's eligibility.;
What this means is that the case was not tried and therefore no ruling has been made that Obama is or is not natural born. ;
nor does it mean that any case has been tried and a ruling passed down that Obama is eligible;
All the others have been dismissed on grounds of not having merit.
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
I am going to leave you all to discuss the layers of the PDF document.
I'm sure you are just as much an expert in that as you are in Constitutional matters.
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
Let's go back to the Constitution, Article II.
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
en.wikipedia.org...:_Qualifications_for_office
Take the first sentence
"No Person except a natural born Citizen"
" or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, "
Analyzing this, what is the meaning of the two parts? Are they the same? If so, why did they put the second part in? Are we not assuming that those who were born in the US at the time of the Revolution were considered citizens? Why did the first Presidents have to be "grandfathered" in with the statement, "or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution:. That means there is something different between a natural born citizen and a citizen.
That difference can only be parents who were citizens at the birth of the individual.
People are simply refusing to see what is in front of them in the natural born clause.
Some legal scholars, opposed to the idea that jus soli should apply to the children of undocumented immigrants, have argued that the Wong Kim Ark precedent does not apply when alien parents are in the country illegally. John C. Eastman, a former dean of the Chapman University School of Law, has argued that Wong Kim Ark does not entitle U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants to gain automatic citizenship because, in his opinion, being subject to the jurisdiction of the United States requires a status of "full and complete jurisdiction" that does not apply to aliens who are in the country illegally.[167] Eastman further argues that the Wong Kim Ark decision was fundamentally flawed in the way it dealt with the concept of jurisdiction,[168] and that the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924—which followed Wong Kim Ark—would not have been necessary if Congress had believed "that the Citizenship Clause confers citizenship merely by accident of birth."[
en.wikipedia.org...edit on 5-6-2013 by ThirdEyeofHorus because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
reply to post by hellobruce
I see you are using the derogatory term "birfer".
Goodbye
Originally posted by hellobruce
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
I am going to leave you all to discuss the layers of the PDF document.
What do layers have to do with anything? That PDF is NOT the birth certificate, something birthers have trouble understanding.
No, it seems by that comment alone YOU are the one having trouble understanding. Have you looked at any of the research at all or are you just spewing Rachel Maddow talking points?
No s**t the PDF is not the birth certificate. The PDF shows that the birth certificate is a composite of multiple birth certificates and...
Nevermind. I'm done wasting my time on people who refuse to acknowledge facts and instead would rather argue nonsense and semantics in order to maintain their false reality.
Whatever, he was born in Hawaii, there, now you can go back to sleep.edit on 6-6-2013 by Nicks87 because: spelling