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“NATURAL BORN CITIZEN”:DEFINED BY 14TH AMENDMENT FRAMERS AND IN TREATISE RELIED ON BY SCALIA
Natural Born Citizen ^ | 12-11-08 | Leo Donofrio

Posted on 12/11/2008 3:30:02 PM PST by STARWISE

PREAMBLE

This week has been quite enlightening as to the blatantly obvious fact that our “Fourth Estate” press corps have been transmogrified into propaganda ponies polly wanna crackering whatever may be handed down to them from “The One Corporation - your source for everything…” (cue eery theme tune). They don’t report the news anymore. No. Now they tell you what they want the news to be. There’s a huge difference.

For the record, my law suit was brought to remove three candidates from the ballots - three candidates who have big Constitutional issues as to their eligibility.

At the time of his birth, Obama was a British/Kenyan citizen by descent of his father. Because I pointed out pesky international laws which governed his citizenship due to the fact that a father has every legal right in the world to have the laws of his nation apply to his son, I have been labeled a conspiracy freakoid of nature.

Never mind that I included demands for Panama John McCain and the Nicaraguan born Roger Calero to also be removed from our ballots. No, they don’t want to talk about that do they - because it would blow the “he’s just another Obama hater” mantra clear out of play.

A citizen (me) raised the Constitutional issue of first impression as to the meaning of “natural born Citizen” in Article 2, Section 1, of the United States Constitution - that ultimate pesky legal document for those who would rather “be” the law instead of following it.

What are the Fourth Estate propagandists worried about? Thou doth protest too much. Me thinks so. Why? Because the law is against their man - it indicates Barack Obama is not a natural born Citizen of the United States. And most of the media pundits have basically agreed by default. I say this because when yelling and mocking the issue, their main argument is not that the law is on their side (they know it isn’t), but rather that the law shouldn’t be discussed at all.

PRESIDENTIAL PRECEDENT

Other than the fraud perpetrated by Chester Arthur (see prior stories), every post grandfather clause President of this nation was born in the United States to parents who were US Citizens.

In their wisdom, they recognized the danger in having people born under the jurisdiction of another country taking the role of commander in chief.

They did this recognizing that multitudes of loyal men wouldn’t be eligible, but they also knew that they couldn’t see into the soul of all possible candidates, so just to be safe, they put a restriction in the Document which is there to protect us from a sneak attack in the oval office by somebody who might have loyalty to another nation.

The framers themselves were good men, loyal to this infant nation, but they recognized that people like them had to be excluded from future Presidential eligibility as an order of protection.

McCain and Obama know that.

And in my stay application, I never accused either man of disloyalty. Quite the opposite.

*snip*

As to John McCain they would have found this:

Senator John McCain is an American patriot who has valiantly suffered more for this country than most of us ever will.

He has shown bravery beyond that which the country has any right to ask, and it is with very deep and sincere regret that I respectfully request that this Honorable Court order the Secretaries of the several States to remove John McCain’s name from the ballots.

I couldn’t have shown the candidates more respect. But both of them should have known that if either were to become President - despite the loyalty they have for this country - the dam would be broken and the waters of foreign influence would be forever capable of drowning our national sovereignty and placing our military in the hands of enemies from within.

IT’S NOT ABOUT OBAMA OR McCAIN - IT’S ABOUT WHO COMES NEXT. THEY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT AND FALLEN ON THEIR PRESIDENTIAL SWORDS TO PROTECT THIS COUNTRY

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My law suit was meant to return the election to the Constitution. It’s the Republican and Democratic parties that overturned the election stuffing two ineligible candidates down our throats with no regard whatsoever to the future precedent it would set.

The people are subservient to the Document and if we don’t keep it that way, we have plenty of historical examples throughout history detailing exactly what will happen to us if the Document is defeated.

*snip*

In conclusion, I would like to thank reader “John Boy” for pointing to Justice Scalia’s opinion in District of Columbia Et Al. v. Heller.

In that case, Justice Scalia took into consideration a certain historical legal reference:

The common references to those “fit to bear arms” in congressional discussions about the militia are matched by use of the same phrase in the few nonmilitary federal contexts where the concept would be relevant… Other legal sources frequently used “bear arms” in nonmilitary contexts.10

Now look at “footnote 10″:

E. de Vattel, The Law of Nations, or, Principles of the Law of Nature 144 (1792) (“Since custom has allowed persons of rank and gentlemen of the army to bear arms in time of peace, strict care should be taken that none but these should be allowed to wear swords”);

Since Justice Scalia cited to this legal textbook in March of 2008, it’s not outrageous to think he might also refer to “The Laws of Nations” on the natural born Citizen issue?

I’ll leave you now with the relevant textbook definition of natural born citizen. The following was published in 1758.

This definition, added to all of the above, certainly establishes a rational legal basis to hold that Barack Obama is not a natural born Citizen.

And more than that, it puts the burden on those who deny it to don the tin foil hat of despair and bring forthwith to the table of honest debate their own bed of authority to lie in:

§ 212. Citizens and natives.

The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens.

As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights. The society is supposed to desire this, in consequence of what it owes to its own preservation; and it is presumed, as matter of course, that each citizen, on entering into society, reserves to his children the right of becoming members of it.

The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; and these become true citizens merely by their tacit consent. We shall soon see whether, on their coming to the years of discretion, they may renounce their right, and what they owe to the society in which they were born.

I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country.

1 posted on 12/11/2008 3:30:03 PM PST by STARWISE
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To: penelopesire; BulletBobCo; seekthetruth; Kevmo; gunnyg; television is just wrong; browardchad; ...

~~PING!


2 posted on 12/11/2008 3:30:28 PM PST by STARWISE ((They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: STARWISE

read later


3 posted on 12/11/2008 3:33:26 PM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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To: STARWISE

read later as well.


4 posted on 12/11/2008 3:34:53 PM PST by RatsDawg
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read again later


5 posted on 12/11/2008 3:35:59 PM PST by hoosiermama (Berg is a liberal democrat. Keyes is a conservative. Obama is bringing us together already!)
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To: RatsDawg

If you have not read information at this web site of Leo Donofrio, please do. http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/

Then please take 90 minutes sometime soon to listen to the video at this link below. At the link click on the video on the left titled: “WTP Obama Citizenship Challenge - National Press Club”. Information the media won’t report.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=bob%20schultz%20press%20conference&rls=com.microsoft:*:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7GWYF&um=1&sa=N&tab=wv#+

Also go to Freeper Joe Thunder’s web site FreedomMarch.org and read other information on the cases before the courts.
Joe’s program on Plains Radio this evening 12/11 at 9:00PM Eastern will be an update on things going on the media won’t report.
http://freedommarch.org/Home_Page.html
http://www.plainsradio.com/


6 posted on 12/11/2008 3:37:40 PM PST by seekthetruth
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To: STARWISE

Looks like Bobby Jindal can never be President of the United States.


7 posted on 12/11/2008 3:39:54 PM PST by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at I00 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: STARWISE

Weren’t both of McCain’s parents US Citizens?


8 posted on 12/11/2008 3:41:43 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: STARWISE; All
Please let poke some holes in your theory;

1] Sen. McCain is a U.S. Cit-zen because he was born in a U.S. Military hospital in the U.S. controlled Panama Canal Zone. His father & mother were/are U.S. Cit zens and there fore is a “natural” born citzen.

2] And as distasteful as it seems Sen. Obama’s mother is/was a U.S. Citizen and under the 14th Amended of the Constitution is to be considered a Citizen. This is just IMHO.......

9 posted on 12/11/2008 3:42:46 PM PST by TMSuchman (If you strike me down, I'll just become more powerful than you'll ever imagine!)
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To: seekthetruth

You sent me that a little bit ago lol.

I am still watching the video! thanks!


10 posted on 12/11/2008 3:44:40 PM PST by RatsDawg
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To: tutstar; Nightshift

gnip...


11 posted on 12/11/2008 3:44:45 PM PST by tutstar (Baptist Ping list - freepmail me to get on or off.)
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To: STARWISE

This will be adjudicated, no matter how long it takes and no matter what the political and social pain


12 posted on 12/11/2008 3:45:47 PM PST by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: trumandogz
Looks like Bobby Jindal can never be President of the United States.

Not unless you can prove conclusively that his parents were naturalized citizens when he was born. Or so Donofrio would have us believe.

13 posted on 12/11/2008 3:48:05 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: STARWISE

It’s not going anywhere. The *absolute best* one could ever get out of the Supreme Court would be an affirmation that “indeed” one has to be a natural-born citizen of the United States and leave it up to Congress to specify how one enforces this.

The issue goes back to Congress and Congress mulls around for a few years figuring it out. By the time Obama has left office, Congress may have it down to pass some legislation about the methodology for enforcement... LOL..

In other words, it’s going nohwere.

Is it any wonder that Bush and his Administration wants nothing to do with this. McCain and his campaign wants nothing to do with this. Palin wants nothing to do with this. Cheney wants nothing to do with this. The Republican Party wants nothing to do with this. Of course, the Democrats want nothing to do with this and neither does Obama (LOL...). You can add a long list of other officials and media and “you-name-it”, along with a list of conservatives who want “nothing to do with this”....

[”Jim, he’s dead!”]

:-)


14 posted on 12/11/2008 3:48:43 PM PST by Star Traveler
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To: Don Corleone
This will be adjudicated, no matter how long it takes and no matter what the political and social pain

Doubtful.

15 posted on 12/11/2008 3:48:59 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

Jindal’s mom and dad were not citizens when he was born, they were here on student visas.

However, both Jindal and Obama are qualified to be president.


16 posted on 12/11/2008 3:51:22 PM PST by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at I00 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: LucyT

ping


17 posted on 12/11/2008 3:52:03 PM PST by stockpirate (Rush, Sean, Laura, Mark, Ann, Malkin, Beck- MIA re: COLB, Have lost ALL creds!)
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To: Don Corleone

America has changed since you were in school. We no longer have a justice system, these days it is a legal system. It is meant to employ members of the legal profession which doesn’t include anything about rendering justice.


18 posted on 12/11/2008 3:54:52 PM PST by B4Ranch ( Veterans: "There is no expiration date on our oath, to protect America from all enemies, ...")
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To: B4Ranch
The distinction between law and justice has been observed many times over the centuries. ("This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice". ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr)

If you've got a better way to consistently administer justice other than by creating a body of laws and following them, the world awaits your solution.

19 posted on 12/11/2008 4:05:01 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: Don Corleone

You said — “This will be adjudicated, no matter how long it takes and no matter what the political and social pain”

Ahhh.., that reminds me of a song — the lyrics go — “In the year 2525...”

LOL...


20 posted on 12/11/2008 4:18:20 PM PST by Star Traveler
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