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Obama - Maybe a Citizen of the United States But Not a Natural Born Citizen
http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2010/03/obama-maybe-citizen-of-united-states.html ^ | March 4,2010 | Mario Apuzzo

Posted on 03/05/2010 4:25:45 AM PST by Spaulding

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To: castlegreyskull

Media Matters/Soros - hiring internet trolls
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2457491/posts?page=2420#2401

They’re .. H E E E R E!


41 posted on 03/05/2010 7:42:49 AM PST by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: STARWISE

Reducing unemployment one troll at a time.


42 posted on 03/05/2010 7:46:46 AM PST by castlegreyskull
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To: DJ MacWoW; Fred Nerks; null and void; stockpirate; george76; PhilDragoo; Candor7; rxsid; ...
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"I believe that the troll effort is now to see how much Freepers know. Trolls know they won't change anyone's mind. So it's fishing and disruption for them."

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43 posted on 03/05/2010 10:29:27 AM PST by LucyT
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To: Spaulding; patlin
Thanks for the article. This is quite substantial. I didn't realize how many Supreme Court Cases cited/referred to Vattel's definition of "natural born citizen" -- nine cases from 1814 to 1898.

It's clear that there has never been any doubt about the meaning of the phrase "natural born citizen" by past Supreme Courts. If the words of Article II and these Courts throughout history are not definitive, then what is??? Precedence is precedence -- unless, I guess, one is dealing with lawless prefabricators.

44 posted on 03/05/2010 10:35:37 AM PST by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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To: LucyT

I saw we continue topublish a list of these disruoors, even thoughthe mmods keep deleting them.The mods are on the side of the disruoptrs. .Jim is gong to lose this site which is the plan of the mods and these disruptors. Someone has Jim over a barrel. The feds? Someone in Jim’s family who is dedicated to Obama?


45 posted on 03/05/2010 10:37:37 AM PST by Candor7 (Now's the time to ante up against the Obama Fascist Junta ( member NRA))
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To: Candor7
Just out of curiosity, what is a “disruoor?”
46 posted on 03/05/2010 10:38:50 AM PST by tired_old_conservative
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To: LucyT
“I believe that the troll effort is now to see how much Freepers know.”

That wouldn't take long.

47 posted on 03/05/2010 10:39:53 AM PST by tired_old_conservative
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To: tired_old_conservative

Sorry, mouth full of doughnut. Disruptor. luch break at work, my apologies.


48 posted on 03/05/2010 10:41:33 AM PST by Candor7 (Now's the time to ante up against the Obama Fascist Junta ( member NRA))
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To: Spaulding
"Mario Apuzzo has written the most authoritative, until the Supreme Court acts, history of natural born citizenship in our Constitution yet provided, filled with dozens of references."

Uuuuuuhhhh... I don't think you quite have a handle on what "authoritative" means. Mario is a personal injury lawyer, not a constitutional lawyer, and has never held any position that would qualify him as an authority on anything to do with the Constitution.

The actual "most authoritative... history of natural born citizenship in our Constitution yet provided" can be found in the Decision of the Supreme Court for the case United States v. Wong Kim Ark. You can find it here:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/search/display.html?terms=elk+v+wilkins&url=/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0169_0649_ZO.html
49 posted on 03/05/2010 10:45:19 AM PST by EnderWiggins
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To: LucyT

Too many people feeding the trolls on other threads. *sigh*


50 posted on 03/05/2010 11:14:55 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: LucyT

Aaaaahhhh...but they still aren’t able to crack our *secret code*. Like when I say, “How’re ya doin’ today?” Only you and maybe a few others actually KNOW what that means.

Or, we can just skip over their posts and let them disrupt each other.


51 posted on 03/05/2010 12:08:29 PM PST by azishot (J.D. Hayworth...U.S. Senator FOR Arizona...http://www.jdforsenate.com/)
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To: LucyT

“I believe that the troll effort is now to see how much Freepers know. Trolls know they won’t change anyone’s mind. So it’s fishing and disruption for them.”
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ABSOLUTELY!! Parsley’s posts are a perfect example of this. I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOO glad that all of the relevant things are hidden from the peering eyes of the trolls that haunt the BC threads. They NEED to know what we know, they won’t find that info here, not on the forum. They will be baited because WE want to know what they want to know.


52 posted on 03/05/2010 1:45:51 PM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Spaulding
Hence, while the definition of a natural born citizen never changed in Vattel’s texts, the term to express it was changed from “indigenes” to “natural-born citizens.”

In the translations, yes. But the early translation was pretty bad. The French used was "Les Naturels, ou indigenes" which translated means "The natural ones, or natives. The full sentence in French, absent the accent marks, is:

"Les naturels, ou indigenes, sont ceux qui sont nes dans le pays, de parents citoyens."

53 posted on 03/05/2010 2:30:34 PM PST by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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To: Huebolt
This will become the scandal of the CENTURY...someday.

Someday...maybe...possibly...perhaps...

54 posted on 03/05/2010 2:33:37 PM PST by Drennan Whyte
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To: MamaTexan
While it says a native born was 'just as much as citizen' as a natural born, it does NOT say a native born is the same as natural born.

It doesn't say there is any difference either.

55 posted on 03/05/2010 2:35:32 PM PST by Drennan Whyte
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To: Spaulding

obumpa


56 posted on 03/05/2010 2:38:25 PM PST by Dajjal (Obama is an Ericksonian NLP hypnotist.)
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To: EnderWiggins
The actual "most authoritative... history of natural born citizenship in our Constitution yet provided" can be found in the Decision of the Supreme Court for the case United States v. Wong Kim Ark.

Not really. It was not about Natural Born Citizenship. Only citizenship.

From the majority opinion of Justice Grey, the question to be resolved:

It is conceded that, if he is a citizen of the United States, the acts of Congress, known as the Chinese Exclusion Acts, prohibiting persons of the Chinese race, and especially Chinese laborers, from coming into the United States, do not and cannot apply to him. The question presented by the record is whether a child born in the United States, of parents of Chinese descent, who, at the time of his birth, are subjects of the Emperor of China, but have a permanent domicil and residence in the United States, and are there carrying on business, and are not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity under the Emperor of China, becomes at the time of his birth a citizen of the United States by virtue of the first clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution,

Nothing there about "natural born citizen".

Then the conclusion:

The evident intention, and the necessary effect, of the submission of this case to the decision of the court upon the facts agreed by the parties were to present for determination the single question stated at the beginning of this opinion, namely, whether a child born in the United States, of parent of Chinese descent, who, at the time of his birth, are subjects of the Emperor of China, but have a permanent domicil and residence in the United States, and are there carrying on business, and are not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity under the Emperor of China, becomes at the time of his birth a citizen of the United States. For the reasons above stated, this court is of opinion that the question must be answered in the affirmative.

Nothing there about "natural born citizen" either.

And in fact in the quote from Binny a distiction between a child of an alien born in the country and the natural born child of a citizen is made. Plus, and I just noticed this, so thank you for pointing me at "WKA" again.

During the debates in the Senate in January and February, 1866, upon the Civil Rights Bill, Mr. Trumbull, the chairman of the committee which reported the bill, moved to amend the first sentence thereof so as to read,

All persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States, without distinction of color.

Mr. Cowan, of Pennsylvania, asked, "Whether it will not have the effect of naturalizing the children of Chinese and Gypsies born in this country?" Mr. Trumbull answered, "Undoubtedly," and asked, "is not the child born in this country of German parents a citizen?" Mr. Cowan replied, "The children of German parents are citizens; but Germans are not Chinese." Mr. Trumbull rejoined: "The law makes no such distinction, and the child of an Asiatic is just as much a citizen as the child of a European." Mr. Reverdy Johnson suggested that the words, "without distinction of color," should be omitted as unnecessary, ...

Thus persons born of alien parents were spoken of as being "naturalized" by birth in the US, not being "natural born" by virtue of such birth. At least in 1866.

57 posted on 03/05/2010 3:02:53 PM PST by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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To: mojitojoe; parsifal; El Sordo; lucysmom; JustaDumbBlonde; MilspecRob; BuckeyeTexan

“I believe that the troll effort is now to see how much Freepers know. Trolls know they won’t change anyone’s mind. So it’s fishing and disruption for them.”
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ABSOLUTELY!! Parsley’s posts are a perfect example of this. I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOO glad that all of the relevant things are hidden from the peering eyes of the trolls that haunt the BC threads. They NEED to know what we know, they won’t find that info here, not on the forum. They will be baited because WE want to know what they want to know.”

Aside from the text book paranoia on display, please accept my thanks. The stuff you’re willing to put out in public is God awful enough. I don’t think any of us what to peer into something worse than that.


58 posted on 03/05/2010 3:09:50 PM PST by tired_old_conservative
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To: El Gato
"Not really. It was not about Natural Born Citizenship. Only citizenship."
Br> Close, but no cigar.

The decision did not require him to rule on Ark's status as an NBC. But the obiter dicta still absolutely contains "most authoritative... history of natural born citizenship in our Constitution yet provided."

If you actually read Justice Gray's (note the spelling of his name) you will find he has vast amounts to say about "natural born citizen," about its source in English common law, about the definition of "subject to the jurisdiction" and the fact that "subject" and "citizen" are synonymous.

It's all there... to include unambiguous gems such as this...

"It thus clearly appears that, by the law of England for the last three centuries, beginning before the settlement of this country and continuing to the present day, aliens, while residing in the dominions possessed by the Crown of England, were within the allegiance, the obedience, the faith or loyalty, the protection, the power, the jurisdiction of the English Sovereign, and therefore every child born in England of alien parents was a natural-born subject unless the child of an ambassador or other diplomatic agent of a foreign State or of an alien enemy in hostile occupation of the place where the child was born.

III. The same rule was in force in all the English Colonies upon this continent down to the time of the Declaration of Independence, and in the United States afterwards, and continued to prevail under the Constitution as originally established."

59 posted on 03/05/2010 3:12:54 PM PST by EnderWiggins
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To: tired_old_conservative

Thanks! I needed a good laugh! They have wrapped the Birther Grotto Of True Evidence in aluminum foil, but they messed up and put it on dull side in-shiny side out. As a result, I was able to get a Mental Ray Projected Copy of all the information.

I would correct all this legal mis-information but they wouldn’t believe it anyway. I blame all this craziness on Obama. If he had freed the long form a year and a half ago, these poor people wouldn’t be wandering around with copies of Vattel held close to their hearts.

But as long as he continues to benefit from them, he will sit back on his selfish rear end and let them run around in circles.

parsy, who blames Obama for the Birther Movement


60 posted on 03/05/2010 3:32:20 PM PST by parsifal (Abatis: Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside)
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