Posted on 04/23/2010 10:45:40 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
Another state has begun considering a law like an Arizona plan approved by the state House there that would require presidential candidates to document their eligibility before being allowed on the election ballot.
Georgia Rep. Mark Hatfield, part of a coalition in his state supporting new election requirements, says it's really the responsibility of members of Congress to make sure a foreign-born individual or dual citizen isn't installed in the White House.
But he said without the leadership in Washington necessary to do that, it is up to states to tackle the issue. Arizona's plan is closest to adoption, awaiting only approval from the state Senate.
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, Oklahoma also has pending in a legislative committee a referendum that could be put before voters.
The organization says during 2009, various plans to require documentation from presidential candidates were considered in Maine, Oklahoma, Missouri and Montana but were not adopted.
But that track record is not at all unusual for controversial issues such as a requirement for documentation for a presidential candidate's eligibility.
The NCSL records also show that other election proposals were considered that were much more vague about whether they would apply to presidential candidates or not.
"If Congress was being responsible about this, Congress would step in and enact reasonable requirements," Hatfield said today in an interview on the G. Gordon Liddy show, where WorldNetDaily CEO Joseph Farah was filling in behind the microphone.
"In the absence of action by Congress states have a duty to step up," he said.
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The Constitution states: "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President."
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Why should just presidential candidates have to document their eligibility for the offices for which they are running?
So he tries to escape the violent left protesters by giving himself a pampering weekend. Let him try to escape the states that won't allow him on the 2012 ballot, by running him aground and out of the country, banished.
Be gone, yellow cur, and take your rabble with you. (No disrespect to true American yellow dogs, for which, I am in constant company.)
I wish TX would.
~~Georgia Rep. Mark Hatfield, part of a coalition in his state supporting new election requirements, says it’s really the responsibility of members of Congress
****to make sure a foreign-born individual or dual citizen isn’t installed in the White House.
OKAY!
All 57 states should have required such simplicity a long time ago. What’s the big deal? A birth certificate is pretty basic stuff. I needed mine to get into the service, needed it again to get a passport. What’s the big deal?
Bump!
It needs to happen in a swing state.
Either we're a constitutional republic, or we're not -- but if we are, then the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the Land, must be followed to the letter.
Of course, that has rather dramatic implications for the rest of federal law and activity too, doesn't it?
Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
Curmudgeon Emeritus of Eternity Road
Good!!!! States doing what the Federal government won’t do.
I hope this legislation goes viral...but een if only a few adopt the measure, it will ensure no poseur candidates in Presidential elections.
What is so very strange is that no law school, think tank or elected official has raised the issue to prominence and come forward with absolute documentation that BO is a bone fide US citizen by birth. What are they afraid of???
We are facing a crisis when many citizens believe that we are , in fact, being governed by a British subject. That blows our sovereign stature to hell...not to mention the damage being done to future treaties and domestic laws.
Hawaii has an obligation to put this matter to rest and prevent civil chaos.
They should also include English only ballots, IMHO.
The vice closes ever tighter
Please God, I pray this starts a Constitutional crises over the tenth ammendment. Is this a jeffersonian republic or not? I want to know...
To allow illegals from one area of the world --Central America to come in to the US and then make them legal or allow them to stay is about as racist and as bigoted as you can get.
Truth is the entire world would like to come to the US if they were allowed, legal or or otherwise.
When we let just one small segment of the world in for any reason other than legally planned immigration it's totally biased and very racist.
Hope the rats can live with that one,it's a formidable excuse but none of our politicos ever use it. I keep wondering why?
Federal Immigration and Nationality Act
Section 8 USC 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv)(b)(iii)
State and local law enforcement officials have the general power to investigate and arrest violators of federal immigration statutes without prior INS knowledge or approval, as long as they are authorized to do so by state law. There is no extant federal limitation on this authority. The 1996 immigration control legislation passed by Congress was intended to encourage states and local agencies to participate in the process of enforcing federal immigration laws. Immigration officers and local law enforcement officers may detain an individual for a brief warrantless interrogation where circumstances create a reasonable suspicion that the individual is illegally present in the U.S. Specific facts constituting a reasonable suspicion include evasive, nervous, or erratic behavior; dress or speech indicating foreign citizenship; and presence in an area known to contain a concentration of illegal aliens.
Problem is we know how zero will handle all this. Any federal money going to Arizona will all of a sudden dry up and the governor will pay the price. But then that's what election are all about.
FR can play a role in this continuing effort to advance Marxism in the country. We can shine the light of day on every dirty little trick they try until they stop trying them.
The new Arizona state law is the same as existing federal law. Nothing controversial about it. Media/Obama do not know the law. Reasonable suspicion is already allowed.
...The experts will try to state that the Arizona clause can not override a majority vote by 49 other states, but they are Obama enablers, as that is exactly what the Constitution has always stated. A President must be accepted by all 50 states according to legal Constitutional requirements.
Any subject failing to provide native born status can legally be rejected by any one state, and that one state in it's minority rights will negate the other 49 states in the check and balance the Founders left silently in the Constitution to protect America from threats domestic and foreign.
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