http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/35948
Natural born citizens, Political Elites, Main Stream Media, Obama's
eligibility
Obama has declared war on the Constitution
- Lawrence Sellin Thursday, April 28, 2011
It is now the patriotic duty of individual states to rescue the United
States.
Before the 2012 election, we must push our state legislatures to pass laws
requiring Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates to prove that they
are natural born citizens i.e. born in the United States, of citizen parents
at the time of birth, in order for them to appear on the state ballot.
By publicly releasing his long-form birth certificate, Obama has officially
announced that he is not a natural born citizen and is arrogantly
challenging the legitimacy of the Constitution.
Not surprisingly, the political elites and the main stream media (MSM)
seemed unanimously elated after the release of his alleged long-form
Certificate of Live Birth.
I imagine that they all had tingles running up their legs.
Both the Republicans and Democrats in Washington, D.C. insist that we should
put the issue of Obama's eligibility behind us, so they may focus on the
"more serious" issues facing the country.
First, there is no more important issue for the country than the integrity
of the Constitution. Without it, the federal government is null and void and
the rule of law is undermined.
Second, the political elites want to move on because they have been
complicit in a flagrant contravention of the Constitution, the Founders
intent and judicial precedence by substituting political fiat for the legal
processes involved in amending the Constitution.
The political elites and the MSM have always known that they were promoting
an infringement of the Constitution by protecting Obama.
Facts are stubborn things.
For the first time in US history, an individual, who is not a natural born
citizen, was knowingly elected President of the United States.
Sadly, I do not remember a time when there has been such a collection of
fools and scoundrels populating the federal government and the MSM as there
has been in recent years.
In my opinion, it is useless to petition Congress about Obama's
ineligibility. They have dishonored their oaths of office to support and
defend the Constitution. They are frightened and they will do nothing
because they all share the blame for the Constitutional crisis in which we
now find ourselves.
Article II, Section I of the Constitution requires that a person be a
natural born citizen to be eligible for the Presidency.
The Constitution does not say "citizen", but specifically combines the legal
concepts of jus soli (right of the soil) and of citizen parents, jus
sanguinis (right of blood). It was intentionally designed by the Framers to
prevent a President from having dual allegiance.
The authors of the Constitution no doubt based their understanding of the
term "natural born citizen," on the 1758 book "The Law of Nations" by
Emerich de Vattel, who wrote:
". natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are
citizens. . children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and
succeed to all their rights. . The country of the fathers is therefore that
of the children."
The narrative of the 14th Amendment is also consistent with the Framers
intent regarding dual allegiance and natural born citizenship.
Representative John Bingham, author of the 14th Amendment, defined natural
born citizenship:
"It means every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United
States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the
language of our Constitution itself, a natural born citizen."
The underlying issues within those Congressional debates were hotly
contested. Yet Bingham's definition of natural born citizen was never
challenged on the floor of the House of Representatives.
Supreme Court cases supporting the natural born citizen definition of born
in the US of citizen parents include:
* The Venus, 12 U.S. 8 Cranch 253 253 (1814)
* Shanks v. Dupont, 28 U.S. 3 Pet. 242 242 (1830)
* Minor v. Happersett , 88 U.S. 162 (1875)
* United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898)
* Duncan v. Louisiana, 391 U.S. 145 (1968)
In September 2008, Lawrence B. Solum, the John E. Cribbet Professor of Law
at the University of Illinois College of Law, published an article in the
Michigan Law Review entitled "Originalism and the Natural Born Citizen
Clause", which stated:
"What was the original public meaning of the phrase that establishes the
eligibility for the office of President of the United States? There is
general agreement on the core of its meaning. Anyone born on American soil
whose parents are citizens of the United States is a natural born citizen."
Despite the intentional distortions continuously disgorged by the MSM and
the willful ignorance displayed by the political elites, there is no
ambiguity. Obama is not eligible for the Presidency.
Stand your ground, if he means to have a war, let it begin now.
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