The Pernicious "Natural Born" Clause of the Constitution: (John Dean questions it)

findLaw ^ | oct 8th 2004 | John Dean

[OL Hickory]

2 cases are listed in the article..

Can anyone summarize for me?

[OL Hickory]

from NJ, and public school..need help (SARC)

[skeeter]

At first I thought a blind little piggy had finally found a nut was referring to the anchor baby aspect of the 14th amendment.

Then I realized he's just being a good little toad, as usual, and providing an assist to the farcical Obama administration.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

These 2...

In fact, there are conflicting holdings that only further compound the problem of understanding this clause. United States v. Wong Kim Ark(1898) indicates that foreign born children of Americans are not natural born. But in contrast, Weedin v. Chin Bow (1927) holds that "at common law the children of our citizen born abroad were always natural born citizen from the standpoint of this government."

[Dan(9698)]

The famous John Dean who brought down Richard Nixon while trying to protect his wife's prostitution connection.

[astyanax]

from the link:
"Accordingly, the natural born citizenship requirement has been treated as a similar absolute. And this requirement has remained the law of the land, notwithstanding the fact that the Founders' fear of undue foreign influence soon proved itself baseless."
So Mr. Dean is apparently unfamiliar with communism?

[hsrazorback1]

U.S. Supreme Court
Weedin v. Chin Bow, 274 U.S. 657 (1927)

Weedin v. Chin Bow

No. 237

Argued March 16, 1927

Decided June 6, 1927

274 U.S. 657

Syllabus

1. Under Rev.Stats. § 1993, which provides:

“All children heretofore born or hereafter born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, whose fathers were or may be at the time of their birth citizens thereof are declared to be citizens of the United States, but the rights of citizenship shall not descend to children whose fathers never resided in the United States,”

[Mr. Jazzy]

John Dean wasn’t (and STILL isn’t!) worthy enough to SPEAK about the LAW!!!

[OL Hickory]

10 minutes after posting this article
the link to the following case(United States v. Wong Kim ) as stated in the article was down. I just go an email from someone (who was just reading it) that you now have to sign in to view it.

I will go and check this out...if its true..... strange days are here my friend

[Beckwith]

whose fathers were or may be at the time of their birth citizens thereof are declared to be citizens of the United States

What's it say for fathers who are declared to be citizens of Kenya?

[Beckwith]

Go here - - Cases law is on this site:

http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaLatest.htm

Cursor down to 11/29/08

[motoman]

Amazing!

This article is dated October 8, 2008.

The Obama natural born citizenship scandal is entering into a new phase and quickly escalating.

John Dean, here, publishes an article involving the very controversy surrounding Obama, but.....ONLY MENTIONS THE ISSUE AS RELATED TO MCCAIN, ROMNEY, AND OTHERS THAT WERE AFFECTED BY THIS ISSUE.

No mention of Obama in this article, on October 8? Why the hell not??

[motoman]

Never mind - article is dated Oct 8, 2004

[OL Hickory]

wow..i started to re-read the article thinking i missed something...thanks for the correction