The Holy Grail of POTUS Eligibility Law Review Articles (re: Obama, Arthur).

naturalborncitizen ^ | 8/25/2009 | rxsid

[rxsid]

Ping!

[penelopesire]

PING AND BOOKMARK!

[Jo Nuvark]

PING WHY EYE!

[stuartcr]

How will this actually change anything?

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

bttt

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

“If we allow persons born in the US of alien fathers to be President of the US then Kim Jong Il, Osama Bin Laden and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are all eligible to have their direct offspring become President of the United States and Commander In Chief of our Armed Forces.”

The DNC is looking into drafting procedures even as we speak.

[plsjr]

As long as MOST of us fail to stand for the rule of law ... nothing.

What will YOU (plural) do?

[cvq3842]

I wonder what laws were signed by President Arthur. Were any states admitted to the Union during his term? Maybe they will try to invalidate that admission . . .

(I’m in my own little world, I know.)

[bmwcyle]

ping

[GloriaJane]

bookmark

[Man50D]

Bookmark

[rxsid]

"The DNC is looking into drafting procedures even as we speak."

Indeed, only...they are attempting to get away with setting the precedent with Barry!

As we know, Arthur didn't set precedent, because the public didn't know he was a British subject at birth, quite unlike Barry of today. Although, both lied to conceal their past in some way.

[bgill]

Take that, you usurper!

Most definitely bookmarked.

[stuartcr]

If I knew what could be done, then I would decide.

[SERKIT]

Did Barry write about this topic when he was president of Harvard Law Review?.....oh never mind....

[HighlyOpinionated]

BTTT

Doesn’t this also mean that all those “anchor” babies are not anchored at all?

THAT would be a nice outcome of this study and report.

Has someone notified Dr. Orly Taitz about this?

[astyanax]

Decided to join you in your world... ;o)
You made me curious so I had to check.
No states entered into the Union from 1881 to 1885.
Colorado (#38) was in 1876.
North Dakota (#39) was in 1889.
As for laws, wiki has a decent summary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_A._Arthur

[astyanax]

Down with Greenwich Mean Time!
:o)

[justiceseeker93]

The blogger who describes this law review article as "the Holy Grail of all POTUS eligibility law review articles" exaggerates its significance quite a bit.

The principle asserted by Collins, which essentially considers citizenship at birth to be solely patrilineal (except in the case of an illegitimate child), is archaic, having been superseded several times by successive US statutes. The same holds for Collins' outright dismissal of any notion of dual (or multiple) citizenship at birth; the fact is that American law has since recognized that some persons are categorized as such. And his idea that descendants of Chinese immigrants born in the US can never be citizens at birth was reversed by a SCOTUS decision in the 1890s which granted citizenship to such persons based upon the 14th Amendment.

The specific subject of POTUS eligibility is not even addressed in Collins' article, as it did not seem to be a concern of his, despite the fact that Arthur - the president, coincidentally, at the time the article was written - would seemingly not qualify for the presidency under Collins' doctrine, given what we now know about Arthur's father's British citizenship status at the time of Arthur's birth.