Republican rock stars or Barack Obama, I will scream from the highest mountain every chance I get, to make sure that from now on, all presidents and vice presidents meet the eligibility requirements set down in our constitution in Article II (president) and Amendment 12 (vice president).
Original intent of the framers and subsequent Supreme Court decisions agree that you must be born on U.S. soil by TWO citizen parents. Anyone who says otherwise doesn't know what they are talking about.
I am with you on this. But, the SC does not care and is willing to gut the Constitution so they can glad hand with the President.
Thanks for the info. I was wondering about that.
Now, do Rubio and Jindal have to cojones to both step up and say, “If I am picked I will not run as I am not a NBC?”
Agree. But to challenge the candidacy the constitution also requires that a plantiff has standing. And so far no plaintiff has proven standing to challenge Obama’s legitimacy.
So lets say Jindal or Rubio gets the nod. And you live in a swing state (ohio for instance) where every vote counts. Does that mean you don’t vote?
“Original intent of the framers and subsequent Supreme Court decisions agree that you must be born on U.S. soil by TWO citizen parents.”
Horsepucky!
The Founders were using a variation of a very well known legal term they had used before: natural born subject. And the US Supreme Court, in 1898, said the meaning of natural born citizen is rooted in that term: natural born subject.
It had a long and well know legal history, was used interchangeably with NBC by early legislatures, and it meant, with a few exceptions, anyone born in the country, or who derived their citizenship from their birth. There was NO two citizen parent requirement. Ever.