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The Holy Grail of POTUS Eligibility Law Review Articles
Natural Born Citizen ^ | August 25, 2009 | Leo Donofrio

Posted on 08/26/2009 11:16:56 AM PDT by Vincent Jappi

Rarely, when conducting legal research does one find a historical document that is directly on point. But even more rare is to find a document which is directly on point multiple times. But that’s exactly what has happened this week. A historical document which destroys every bogus point being made by Obama POTUS eligibility supporters was recently discovered by a cracker jack team of university students from UConn. They call themselves UNDEAD REVOLUTION.

They have been sending me good stuff for quite a while now. A wonderful contributor to comments at this blog – Kamira – is part of that team. This group is preparing the mother of all natural born citizen research reports based upon their unique historical document discoveries. It will be guest blogged by them right here when it’s ready for public consumption.

But for now, and as a lead in to their work, I offer you one of their superb historical finds. It’s an article from The American Law Review dated Sept./Oct. 1884. The American Law Review was a premier legal journal - the brain child of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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This was not a law school publication. It was considered to be the state of legal art which utilized the most esteemed attorneys of the period.

The article I am about to show you was published in The American Law Review, written by George D. Collins, Esq. Attorney Collins was the Secretary of the California Bar Association. His name was recognized nationally for cases in the federal courts and moreso due to his regular publishing of articles via The American Law review.

The article I am excited to bring you is titled:

ARE PERSONS BORN IN THE UNITED STATES IPSO FACTO CITIZENS THEREOF?

The article provides historical opposition for every single point raised by Obama eligibility pundits and destroys all propaganda in its path.

The article is written in a clear and concise manner, easily understood by lawyers and lay persons alike. I will now introduce each relevant issue confronted in this article and then present the article in full for your review.

View the document on Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/19071886

OBAMA POTUS ELIGIBILITY MYTHS DESTROYED BY MR. GEORGE COLLINS

MYTH #1: Chester Arthur’s British birth was known and accepted by the American people.

This article was written in Summer 1884, while Chester Arthur was still President. Since The American Law Review was such an esteemed legal publication, old Chester must have been somewhat intimidated by the report of Mr. Collins. This is because the article makes perfectly clear that to be a natural born citizen one must have been born to a US citizen father.

Chester’s father William was not naturalized until 1843, 14 years after Chester was born. This meant that Chester Arthur was a British subject at birth and was therefore not eligible to be President as was first reported at this blog back in December 2008.

It has been argued that Chester Arthur’s occupation of the White House set a legal precedent for Obama since both Chester and Barack were born of British fathers. But the public – at the time Chester was running for VP and later when he became POTUS – never knew that Chester Arthur was a British subject since he successfully lied to the public about his parental heritage.

The law review article goes into great detail concerning the issue of who exactly rises to the level of natural born citizen. It discusses law cases and legal precedent in its analysis, but it does not even mention the current President – Chester Arthur – even though Attorney Collins steadfastly denies that a person born on US soil to an alien father could be a natural born citizen.

If Attorney Collins – esteemed lawyer, Secretary of the Bar Association and nationally known legal journalist – had thought his current President at the time this article was published – Chester Arthur – was a British subject at birth, then the article would have required a discussion of that point.

But the article does not mention President Chester Arthur because Chester Arthur managed – through blatant deceit - to cover that issue up. He successfully concealed his British birth from the American people. This law review article is proof of that conclusion.

MYTH #2: Lynch v. Clark ( a New York State case, not federal) is legal precedent for Obama to be considered a natural born citizen.

Despite the fact that state court cases have absolutely no legal weight of authority in federal court, Obama eligibility supporters cite this case often. Attorney Collins tears the decision to shreds and exposes its faulty conclusions.

MYTH #3: Common law states that being born on the soil – Jus Soli – makes one a “natural born subject” and therefore every person born on US soil is a “natural born citizen”.

Attorney Collins takes this on directly and establishes clearly that there is no common law in the United States. He also explains that natural born citizens are in no way, shape or form, the same as natural born subjects.

MYTH #4: Vattel’s definition of a natural born citizen was not considered by the framers.

Attorney Collins discusses Vattel in great detail. And Collins agrees that to be a natural born citizen one must be born on the soil of parents who were themselves citizens. Collins quotes Vattel.

But more important is the fact that Collins makes it clear Vattel’s definition of “natural born citizen” was not actually Vattel’s definition.

This is very important.

The definition of “natural born citizen” was not created by Vattel in his treatise, “Law of Nations.” That treatise simply discussed the established body of law known as “the law of nations”. The definition of natural born citizen discussed in Vattel’s treatise was actually the definition established by the body of law known as “law of nations”.

Attorney Collins makes all of this quite clear in the article below. Now please review Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution:

The Congress shall have power…To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the Law of Nations;

The capital letters are not in reference to Vattel’s treatise, but they are in reference to the body of law Vattel wrote about – the actual “law of nations”. And that body of law - according to Attorney Collins as well as Vattel – held that a “natural born citizen” was somebody with connections to the nation for having been born on the soil as well as having been born of citizen parents. In Article 1, Section 8, we therefore have a direct recognition that the framers respected the law of nations.

DOUBLE ALLEGIANCE TO THE NATION

This is what the framers required for the Commander In Chief. Any child of immigrants from any nation could become President – as long as his parents became naturalized US citizens before that child was born on US soil. In their wisdom, the framers sought two generations of US citizenship. This discriminates against no race at all.

To be an American has nothing to do with race. It has to do with being a person cloaked in liberty – free from monarchy, free of repression, free forever.

The natural born citizen clause does not establish a superior form of citizenship. It does establish a national security safeguard against foreign invasion of the White House and takeover of the US Armed Forces.

It makes all the sense in the world that the person who holds the keys to the massive nuclear arsenal in our possession should be born on US soil to parents who were citizens.

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.

That is what you are saying if you think Obama is eligible to be President.

You can’t discriminate based on race or nationality in this country. If a person whose father was not a US citizen at the time of his birth can become President, then it doesn’t matter what nation that person is a dual citizen of.

This is the main issue and main reason why I have dedicated so much of my time to this situation. I am no more worried about Obama than I was about Bush or Clinton. I see all of them as having struck horrific blows against US sovereignty. But I am seriously worried about who comes next. Who is being groomed as a Manchurian candidate as we speak?

If Obama is eligible to be President, then the sons of every despicable despot are also eligible.

It’s not like North Korea, Saudi Arabia or Iran are going to let the sons of US citizens lead their countries anytime soon. Are we really going to allow their sons to lead our nation? The framers would never have allowed such a horrific situation to exist. With the natural born citizen clause they protected us against this very scenario. We must protect the protection.

A legal fraud is being perpetrated upon this nation through ridicule and straight up major media propaganda.

The great weight of authority indicates Obama is not eligible to be President, but we are losing the PR war.

I recognize arguments which take issue with some of the conclusions below. But the point is urgently made that this issue is not settled and has never been directly adjudicated by a federal court. Such adjudication is the necessary outcome of this debate.

I hope the following piece of history serves as a wake up call to the snarky sarcasm being leveled at this very serious legal question. There is nothing funny about this issue. The repercussions for generations to come are potentially disastrous.

And with that I leave you with the Holy Grail of all natural born citizen law review articles:

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: article2section1; british; certifigate; donofrio; eligibility; naturalborn; obama; precedent; usurpation

1 posted on 08/26/2009 11:16:57 AM PDT by Vincent Jappi
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To: Vincent Jappi

ping for later


2 posted on 08/26/2009 11:18:30 AM PDT by Batman11 (Obama will dispatch skittle $hitting unicorns around the world to bring peace and prosperity to all!)
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To: Vincent Jappi

Fascinating. I look forward to the additional information that is pending in this issue.

Keep the heat on him! The truth will come out.


3 posted on 08/26/2009 11:24:35 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2013: Change we can look forward to.)
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To: Vincent Jappi

Add one more prominent historic figure-head having properly and publicly defined the commonly understood definition for NBC. It's a pity our SCOTUS justices are so spineless and/or illiterate ...


4 posted on 08/26/2009 11:25:09 AM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: Vincent Jappi

Free The US Longform COLB!
O had Indonesian citizenship!
His father was a British subject!
His granny swears he was born in Kenya, she was there!
Why no records of his school days?
What’s up with his passport?
Why so many SS numbers?
The man from no where, who needed no document to take the highest office in the world...
And what is known is that he has surrounded himself with America hating radicals his whole life.
What really caused his grandmother’s death in Hawaii at election time?
Who killed the man giving information on the passport info breach during the presidential campaign last fall?
Who killed Donald Young, choir director at O’s Chicago hate church, and supposed homosexual partner to O?

O, Why so Socialist?


5 posted on 08/26/2009 11:25:23 AM PDT by TheConservativeParty ("I am Sarah Palin." and "I am the NRA.")
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To: Vincent Jappi

Ping birth


6 posted on 08/26/2009 11:30:16 AM PDT by 4Speed
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To: Vincent Jappi

“FREE THE LONG FORM!”


7 posted on 08/26/2009 11:35:08 AM PDT by Dryman ("FREE THE LONG FORM!")
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To: Vincent Jappi

INTREP


8 posted on 08/26/2009 11:36:54 AM PDT by LiteKeeper (When do the impeachment proceedings begin?)
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To: Vincent Jappi; All

FYI:
http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20090825/OPINION03/908250305/1014/NEWS17/Transparency

Gerbalists in `America’s Hometown’ newspaper simply ignore the writer’s distinction between a Certificate of Live Birth—as can be seen on the document at the website they provide—and a Birth Certificate, and expect the readers to take their word for it.


9 posted on 08/26/2009 11:44:37 AM PDT by tumblindice (good night nurse)
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To: PubliusMM
Keep the heat on him! The truth will come out.

0bama has spent $1.5 million hiding the facts surrounding his birth. There is something big he is hiding.

10 posted on 08/26/2009 12:12:42 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (FUBO - No socialist Bureaucrat on a Death Panel is going to decide whether I live or die!)
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To: teenyelliott

over here


11 posted on 08/27/2009 10:02:13 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant
creepy creepy creepy

The more I learn, the more my gut churns.

12 posted on 08/27/2009 10:04:18 AM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: teenyelliott

He’s got two distinct problems when it comes to his origins. One, he has to hide his birth certificate because it would demonstrate he has lied about his birth circumstances - either location of birth or who his father is. Two, as Donofrio points out here, having a foreigner as father may indeed preclude NBC status for the marxist.

We will force this issue, one way or another.


13 posted on 08/27/2009 10:07:28 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant
If it is true that he enrolled in college as a foreign student, shouldn't Rush and Glenn and Malkin et al be screaming that from the rooftops?

That fact alone would be enough to make the American people freak out.

14 posted on 08/27/2009 10:20:30 AM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: teenyelliott

We don’t know if he enrolled in college as a foreign student. His college records are sealed. And Glenn and Malkin think the so-called birthers are nuts. At least Rush touches on this lack of BC from time to time.


15 posted on 08/27/2009 10:27:25 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant
Claiming foreign student status on his own is hardly a "birther" issue.

Methinks if the general public knew that Obama declared himself a foreign student, they would NOT sit well with it.

I thought he was just hiding his grades. Damn.

16 posted on 08/27/2009 10:39:02 AM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: so_real

ping to self


17 posted on 08/28/2009 11:43:31 AM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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