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To: Cold Case Posse Supporter

“He isn’t a natural born Citizen born to two U.S. citizen parents.”

Please give the pinpoint cite in the US Const, US Code, or the Code of Federal Regulations, that supports that definition. Actually, I’ll save you the time. It isn’t there b/c your definition isn’t the law.


207 posted on 03/09/2013 9:42:35 AM PST by Lou Budvis
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To: Lou Budvis
"Please give the pinpoint cite in the US Const, US Code, or the Code of Federal Regulations, that supports that definition. Actually, I’ll save you the time. It isn’t there b/c your definition isn’t the law."

Because our three branches of government are presumed to be separate, there is no US Code, no law defining natural born citizenship. It was defined early in our Constitution, Article II Section 1, because it was so important to our framers and founders. There are no definitions in the Constitution, by design. The definition comes from our common-law - the laws that have been accepted without question - familiar to our framers. Here is the positive law, created when Virginia Minor challenged the court to allow her to vote in her home state of Missouri, based upon the equal protections clause the 14th Amendment.

Since citizens, before the 14th Amendment, were defined explicitly only within each state, the only Constitutional definition for a citizens was that for a natural born citizen. Being a natural born citizen before the 14th Amendment was passed, Virginia was also a citizen. She wasn't able to vote as a citizen before the 14th, and the 14th never mentioned suffrage. That is why Minor v. Happersett turned common-law to positive law. Virginia needed to be an unquestioned citizen; the definitions for who is a citizen are constantly changing, even today. The Constitution, based upon natural law, was assumed to be an document based upon eternal truth. A "native", or natural born citizen is a definition from natural law, not from men. Here is the key citation:

“The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.”

1,030 posted on 03/11/2013 2:52:10 AM PDT by Spaulding
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