Posted on 08/31/2010 4:32:31 PM PDT by RobinMasters
A retired lieutenant general from the U.S. Air Force who commanded forces armed with nuclear weapons says the disclosure of Barack Obama's documentation proving his eligibility to be commander in chief is critical not just to the defense of an officer challenging the president's status, but to the preservation of the nation itself.
The vehement statements came in an affidavit from retired Lt. Gen. Thomas G. McInerney that was disclosed today by an organization generating support for Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin.
Lakin had invited his own court-martial because he is unable to follow orders under the chain of command with Obama at its head until and unless Obama's eligibility is documented.
A hearing is scheduled in Lakin's court-martial case Thursday at which a ruling is expected on defense requests for the very evidence that McInerney is citing.
The general, who retired in 1994 after serving as Vice Commander in Chief of USAF forces in Europe, Commander of the 3rd Tactical Fighter Wing and Assistant Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, among other positions, said the chain of command issue is critical in today's world, since officers are obligated both to follow orders and to disobey illegal orders.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Reason enough why The Manchurian Candidate needs to be outted
Looking at the Generals picture in the article....why is he wearing an ARMY uniform if he is a USAF general?
One of these days, one of these court cases will find a judge who agrees that Zero’s BC has not been produced to their satifaction.
That will probably cause a “Constitutional Crisis”, as libs like to call anything that treatens their position or power.
Uh Oh! When it becomes clear there is an enemy sitting in the White House I just wonder wht the remaining unretired military will do.
I have to say that I would much prefer that the FBI perp walk Stroker out of OUR White House than to have the Secret Service escort him out.
Wonder if any of those turds that were singing “Na na na na hey hey Good bye” to President Bush and VP Dick Cheney will be there to wish their messiah well?
The pic is one of Lt. Col. Lakin — not Gen. McInerney
There is much about Hussein’s past that needs to be brought to light.
With zero’s plan to downgrade some tech information and make more available to foreign entities our science and research data .. I’m hoping the timing is right for the judge to say, “Enough is enough .. bring that man and his documents to me NOW!”
0bamas’ hidden records: Why are these off limits?
1 Certified copy of original birth certificate
2 Columbia University transcripts
3 Columbia thesis paper
4 Campaign donor analysis requested by 7 major watchdog groups
5 Harvard University transcripts
6 Illinois State Senate records
7 Illinois State Senate schedule
8 Law practice client list and billing records/summary
9 Locations and names of all half-siblings and step-mother
10 Medical records (only the one page summary released so far)
11 Occidental College Transcripts
12 Parent’s marriage Certificate
13 Record of baptism
14 Selective Service registration records
(Did Obama Actually Register for Selective Service?
This supposed revelation of 0’s SS records has been debunked here and here.)
15 Schedules for trips outside of the United States before 2007
16 Passport records for all passports
17 Scholarly articles
18 SAT and LSAT test scores
19 Access to his grandmother in Kenya
20 List of all campaign workers that are lobbyists
21 Punahou grade school records
22 Noelani Kindergarten records are oddly missing from the the State of Hawaii Department of Education.
23 Obama 1964 Divorce Papers - 13 Pages - Missing Pg 11
24 Why isn’t Barack Obama still a member of the Illinois bar and where are all of the relevant documents?
25 Why isn’t Michelle Obama still a member of the Illinois bar, after only about four years of practice, and where are all of the relevant documents?
Thanks: TigersEye
many states are contemplating requiring absolute proof of natural born citizenship before placing a candidate on that states ballot for president...
I remember seeing Lt. Gen. Thomas G. McInerney on Fox News a lot. Haven’t seen him on Fox in quite a while. Maybe that’s why. He seems like a good guy to me.
We definitely are in the midst of a Constitutional crisis. Everyone in Washington knows that this guy does not belong in the Oval Office but they are so tangled in his lies and the corruption there that they don’t know how to extract themselves from them.
That will never happen.
In the meantime we have absolute proof that the current occupant of the Oval Office should never been on any of those state ballots. So why don't those states who have suddenly of late discovered Article II of the Constitution do something about that usurper and his usurpation.
Exactly! The coverup is so far reaching that it would not only take down Obama but many others if it were ever revealed. I still hope and pray it is revealed.
About 30 minutes ago, I went to the safeguardourconstitution.com site and saw this article. It also had the General’s affidavit supporting Lt. Lakin’s case. I left that site for no more than 2 miutes and when I went back, I was greeted by an advisory page with the following heading, saying .. (I copy / pasted here):
“Apache is working on your cPanel® and WHM™ Server”. . . . .
I just tried to visit the site again but it still is blocked...
Well, hopefully, at least one will actually PASS such a requirement before the next presidential election. I'm sort of surprised that Oklahoma or one of the other sunbelt states hasn't already done so.
They all need to be taken down and jailed.The charge would be treason for starters.
“Lakin is being supported by the American Patriot Foundation, which said the affidavit is for use in Lakin’s trial, scheduled Oct. 13-15, as well as Thursday’s hearing on the evidence to be allowed in the case.
Lakin’s defense counsel has asked for the president’s school records as well as a deposition from the custodian of Obama’s birth records that may exist in the state of Hawaii.
The hearing is scheduled at 11 a.m. Thursday at Ft. Meade, Md., at the courthouse at 4432 Llewellyn Ave., inside the military base. The court is open to the public.”
Ping
General: Obama records ‘critical’ to ‘our Republic’
The entire article and the General’s affidavit are available on Dr. Taitz site, in PDF
I would love to see that man live out the rest of his life in the same miserably financially poor state that he has put so many into.
At every turn his basic life story is fraught with questions on the most elementary details. Let’s review:
- Where did his parents meet? Obama says, in Russian-language class at the University of Hawaii. But a photo shows his grandfather Stanley greeting Barack Sr. as if he already knew him on his arrival to Hawaii, among several convivial photos of Barack Sr. without Obama’s mother Ann.
- Barack Obama claims his father arrived in Hawaii Sept. 9, 1959, airlifted from Kenya by Jackie Robinson’s efforts; but the University of Hawaii officially confirmed Barack Sr. was already enrolled before then.
- His parents’ ephemeral marriage, though documented in divorce papers, was denied by his wife in a campaign speech.
- Barack Obama Sr. at party with University of Hawaii students in the early 1960s
- The date of the alleged marriage was given both as Feb. 2 and as Feb. 21, 1961.
- His birth announcements claim an address for him that there is no evidence he or his parents ever lived at. His father had a bachelor pad while his mother allegedly remained with her parents.
- Even words like “father” and “mother” must be used advisedly with Obama, because the poem attributed to him, “Pop”, is dedicated not to Barack Sr. but to his grandfather Stanley, or another man; and no photo of his mother’s pregnancy has ever surfaced – six months of her life are completely undocumented. (With his birth certificate missing, we use the polite words more out of gracious consideration than evidence.)
- He claims to have been born in Hawaii, but University of Washington documents place him and his mother in Seattle 15 days later, without any explanation. And his generally accepted birthdate of Aug. 4, 1961, was contradicted by the MySpace account he manages.
- A letter now claims (though his authorship of it is unconfirmed) that he was born at Kapi’olani Medical Center in Honolulu; but his sister Maya claimed it was Queen’s Medical Center; and his grandmother Sarah seemingly recalled attending his birth in Kenya. National media ran widely with Maya’s claim until it was memory-holed after WorldNetDaily’s exposure of the contradiction.
- He states his father left his mother when he was 2, though her college documentation all but belies that.
- His mother stated she married Lolo Soetoro in Maui, March 5, 1964, and/or in Molokai, March 15, 1965. What?
- Passport records show he was taken to Indonesia on Japan Airlines, but his autobiography recalls it as Pan Am with a whole-cloth three-day layover in Japan instead. Quite a bit of difference there. It appears he didn’t write “his” autobiography anyway.
- According to school and passport records, he was apparently adopted under the names “Barry Soetoro” and/or “Soebarkah” and given Indonesian citizenship, but he makes no statement about ever having changed his name back to Obama or revoking the citizenship. Does he want it both ways?
- In Indonesia, he slept in the same room as a stepsister whom he forgot about so completely that she never made any news cycle until now, months after she died.
- Although Obama implies he was in Indonesia uninterrupted from 1967 to 1971, Scott Inoue has released a 1969 photo of himself and “Barry” in third grade back in Honolulu.
- While Obama worked at his first job apparently in Honolulu, standardized coding indicates someone in Connecticut applied for the Social Security number he is now using.
- I don’t know about you, but I can tell you where I went to school and who my family members are without equivocation.
I can visit Ronald Reagan’s birthplace today, or any other president’s, except Obama’s (and maybe Chester Arthur’s). I can get the full details on when any of our leaders entered this life. Have you ever seen such a systematic dissembling of simple childhood details for anyone else in history? … Some slight discrepancy would be normal and even appropriate. But why would his entire family have such trouble keeping his childhood narrative straight at every single point?
It’s about time someone that was a high rank came out in support of the birther movement.
Agreed.
That would take a judiciary that follows the law as set forth in the US Constitution. Sadly, that is why what you seek will probably never happen.
The dam ain't gonna hold forever.
Hope or not, that's the system the founders gave us. If the American electorate are too stupid and lazy to check out the credentials of the guy pining for the highest office in the land, then we get what we deserve.
I can’t argue with that...
Perhaps a more accurate version:
If the Congress is too stupid and lazy during the January 2009 Joint Session of Congress to check out the credentials of the guy pining for the highest office in the land pursuant to their oath of office and 3 USC 15, then there is a potentially fatal defect in the nation's government.
In essence, LTC Lakin is saying, “As a military officer, I cannot honor my oath to defend the Constitution until the Congress does its job.”
23 Obama 1964 Divorce Papers - 13 Pages - Missing Pg 11
My, I thought I was up on all of this but a divorce in O’s past is news to me. Can you provide a few details, please.
Thanks.
mieleman
> “Exactly! The coverup is so far reaching that it would not only take down Obama but many others if it were ever revealed. I still hope and pray it is revealed.” <
So far reaching is correct. Google: “Obama Knew He Wasn’t Eligible For POTUS” from Zapem’s Blog.
That’s the beginning of the cover up with Senate Resolution 511 being introduced and supported by “The Gang of Seven” which included Obama, (HR)Clinton, Leahy, Menendez, McCaskill, Coburn and McCain.
Everyone of them are complicit traitors.
> “I just tried to visit the site again but it still is blocked...” <
Two months ago I was able to get to “safeguardour..” site. I got to it one time. After that “error” message, etc.
So what happens when every document this jerko has signed means nothing? Scary stuff.
General: Obama records 'critical' to 'our Republic' "
Divorce papers from Stanley Ann Dunham and Obama Sr.
Missing page 11 would have been a copy of Barack Obama’s birth certificate.
> “So what happens when every document this jerko has signed means nothing? Scary stuff.” <
A Constitutional Crisis happens. As I said before, this Constitutional Crisis will make “Watergate” look like a midnight drive-by shooting at a 7-Eleven.
Justices Sotomayor and Kagan will have to vacate the Supreme Court as well, I think.
Oh. I see. Thanks for the clarification.
Thanks, rxsid. Saw this thread earlier and recognized Lt. Gen. Thomas G. McInerney’s name. He was a contributor to Fox News....haven’t seen him on Fox in quite a while.
He’s absolutely right about BO’s records being critical to our country. Very critical.
A Constitutional Crisis happens. As I said before, this Constitutional Crisis will make “Watergate” look like a midnight drive-by shooting at a 7-Eleven.
Justices Sotomayor and Kagan will have to vacate the Supreme Court as well, I think."
That's right. How can the Senate confirm a SCOTUS nomination from a USURPER? They can't. Their nominations never happened. This massive Constitutional crisis is the very reason so many independents and "Republicans" have been affraid to address this in the open. That, and the ever so dreaded "racist" card.
| HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? |
“When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children.http://fightthesmears.com/articles/5/birthcertificate.html
Factcheck.org goes on to say this about Obama Sr., Jr. and the British Nationality Act of 1948:
In other words, at the time of his birth, Barack Obama Jr. was both a U.S. citizen (by virtue of being born in Hawaii) and a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies (or the UKC) by virtue of being born to a father who was a citizen of the UKC.http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/does_barack_obama_have_kenyan_citizenship.html
Even the modern day State Department rules discusses the problems associated with dual citizenship:
7 FAM 081: U.S. Policy on Dual Nationality:http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/86563.pdf(e)While recognizing the existence of dual nationality, the U.S. Government does not encourage it as a matter of policy because of the problems it may cause. Dual nationality may hamper efforts by the U.S. Government to provide diplomatic and consular protection to individuals overseas. When a U.S. citizen is in the other country of their dual nationality, that country has a predominant claim on the person.
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the U.S. Supreme Court has stated that dual nationality is a "status long recognized in the law" and that "a person may have and exercise rights of nationality in two countries and be subject to the responsibilities of both." See Kawakita v. United States, 343 U.S. 717 (1952).
So, back to the question: "HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN?"
It can't. Of course not. Yet, right there, on his campaign web site F.T.S., it's stated that a foreign government "governed" Barry from birth and the reason it did, was that Barry inherited that foreign citizenship by way of his foreign national father (no matter where he was born), a fact backed up by Factcheck.org. Assuming, of course, that Sr. was his legal father at birth.
How, then, could he possibly be a "Natural Born Citizen" of the U.S.?
Barry Soetoro, the divided citizen at birth!
| Barack Obama a/k/a Barry Soetoro * | NOT Obama / Soetoro |
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| * This assumes HI birth. A citizen of 2 countries at birth. |
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Furthermore: Hawaii's Territorial Law, Chapter 57 - "VITAL STATISTICS, I", shown beginning pg 23 of 29, (the law in effect in 1961) allowed the parents (or grandparents or other relative) of baby's born anywhere in the world to be eligible to apply for a Hawaiian birth certificate. A mailed-in form (without mention of a hospital, doctor, or midwife) signed by one of his grandparents (who forged the parent signature(s)) would have been enough to set up a birth record and a birth certificate at the Dept of Health. The Dept of Health would (presumably) then have automatically sent the names of the parents, their address as given on the mailed-in form , the gender of the child, and the date of birth to the Honolulu Advertiser and Star-Bulletin. The address given for the parents in the newspaper announcements is actually, however, the August 1961 home address of Obama’s maternal grandparents Stanley and Madelyn Dunham [6085 Kalanianaole Highway], and not the 1961 home address of Barack Obama, Sr. [625 11th Ave].).
Bottom line: Even IF (big IF) he was born in HI, he inherited his father's foreign citizenship as well, making him a US citizen by US law and a subject to the crown of her majesty the Queen of England by inheritance, birthright and England's law. He could not be considered a Natural Born Citizen as known by and as intended by the framers.
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What follows, is a bit of information with regards to the Constitutional term "Natural Born Citizen" (specifically) and NOT about the entire makeup, functions, origins and influences that made/make up our form of government, a Constitutional Republic. Clearly, the framers relied upon many different sources to create our new form of government.
Who, or "what" constituted a natural born citizen was well known to the framers. Jay would not have made such a suggestion to the others (Washington & the rest of those in attendance at the Constitutional Convention) unless there was a clear understanding of what that term meant. The definition comes from a source that not only were the framers familiar with, but the founders (many who were both) as well. And yes, even though most could not speak French, most read French (except, notably, Washington who would defer to Jefferson when such interpretation was needed).
NBC in the Constitutional drafts:
June 18th, 1787 - Alexander Hamilton suggests that the requirement be added, as: "No person shall be eligible to the office of President of the United States unless he be now a Citizen of one of the States, or hereafter be born a Citizen of the United States." Works of Alexander Hamilton (page 407).
July 25, 1787 (~5 weeks later) - John Jay writes a letter to General Washington (president of the Constitutional Convention): "Permit me to hint, whether it would be wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expressly that the Commander in Chief of the American army shall not be given to nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen." [the word born is underlined in Jay's letter which signifies the importance of allegiance from birth.] http://rs6.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28fr00379%29%29:
September 2nd, 1787 George Washington pens a letter to John Jay. The last line reads: "I thank you for the hints contained in your letter"
http://www.consource.org/index.asp?bid=582&fid=600&documentid=71483
September 4th, 1787 (~6 weeks after Jay's letter and just 2 days after Washington wrote back to Jay) - The "Natural Born Citizen" requirement is now found in their drafts. Madison's notes of the Convention
The proposal passed unanimously without debate.
Original French version of Vattel's Law of Nations:
Emer de Vattel, Le droit des gens, ou Principes de la loi naturelle, vol. 1 (of 2) [1758]
From Chapter XIX, 212 (page 248 of 592):
Title in French: "Des citoyens et naturels"
To English: "Citizens and natural"
French text (about citizens): "Les citoyens sont les membres de la societe civile : lies a cette societe par certains devoirs et soumis a son autorite, ils participent avec egalite a ses avantages."
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To English: "The citizens are the members of the civil society: linked to this society by certain duties and subject to its authority, they participate with equality has its advantages."
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French text (about "natural" born citizens): "Les naturels, ou indigenes, sont ceux qui sont nes dans le pays, de parens citoyens"
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To English, gives this: "the natural, or indigenous, are those born in the country, parents who are citizens"
A detailed, historical, etymology of the term "Natural Born Citizen" can be found here: http://www.greschak.com/essays/natborn/index.htm
Prior to the Constitution
"This 1758 work by Swiss legal philosopher Emmerich de Vattel is of special importance to scholars of constitutional history and law, for it was read by many of the Founders of the United States of America, and informed their understanding of the principles of law which became established in the Constitution of 1787. Chitty's notes and the appended commentaries by Edward D. Ingraham, used in lectures at William and Mary College, provide a valuable perspective on Vattel's exposition from the viewpoint of American jurists who had adapted those principles to the American legal experience."
Vattel's Law of Nations, built upon "natural law - which has it's roots in ancient Greece, was influenced by Leibniz.
Even Blackstone affirmed the basis of natural law:
"This law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original” (1979, 41). In this passage, Blackstone articulates the two claims that constitute the theoretical core of conceptual naturalism: 1) there can be no legally valid standards that conflict with the natural law; and 2) all valid laws derive what force and authority they have from the natural law."
Thomas Jefferson (for one example) had the 1758 version as well as a 1775 version in his own library:
Thomas Jefferson's Library: A Catalog with the Entries in His Own Order (under a section he titled "Ethics. Law of Nature and Nations."
In AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Thomas Jefferson, he states: "On the 1st of June 1779. I was appointed Governor of the Commonwealth and retired from the legislature. Being elected also one of the Visitors of Wm. & Mary college, a self-electing body, I effected, during my residence in Williamsburg that year, a change in the organization of that institution by abolishing the Grammar school, and the two professorships of Divinity & Oriental languages, and substituting a professorship of Law & Police, one of Anatomy Medicine and Chemistry, and one of Modern languages; and the charter confining us to six professorships, we added the law of Nature & Nations..." This was 8 years prior the the writing of the Constitution! [See the "Law of Nature & Nations" section of his personal library to get an idea of what he included in this curriculum in America's 1st law school].
Note: Vattel, is one of only 10 "footnotes" in Jefferson's Biography, from Yale.
Prior to Jay's famous letter to those in attendance at the Constitutional Convention, we see (one of many exchanges between the founders) a letter from Madison ("father" of the Constitution) to Jay:
"James Madison, as a member of the Continental Congress in 1780, drafted the instructions sent to John Jay, for negotiating a treaty with Spain, which quotes at length from The Law of Nations. Jay complained that this letter, which was probably read by the Spanish government, was not in code, and "Vattel's Law of Nations, which I found quoted in a letter from Congress, is prohibited here.[29]"
From: Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness. How the Natural Law concept of G.W. Leibniz Inspired America's Founding Fathers.
The concepts of "natural law" and the phrase "Laws of Nature" (of which Law of Nations is built upon) are found within the Declaration of Independence itself:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governedThose (& others) are clearly NOT derived from English law, but rather from natural law concepts (which can be found in Vattel's Law of Nations).
The Constitution
The concepts of "natural law" continued in the Constitution:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect UnionAgain, those phrases are not from English common law, but rather from natural law and even mention Vattel's book by name, "Law of Nations."...
Article 1. section 8, clause 10:
"To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations"
After the Constitution is penned
Founder and Historian David Ramsay Defines a Natural Born Citizen in 1789.
David Ramsay (April 2, 1749 to May 8, 1815) was an American physician, patriot, and historian from South Carolina and a delegate from that state to the Continental Congress in 1782-1783 and 1785-1786. He was the Acting President of the United States in Congress Assembled. He was one of the American Revolution’s first major historians. A contemporary of Washington, Ramsay writes with the knowledge and insights one acquires only by being personally involved in the events of the Founding period.
Ramsay REAFFIRMS the definition a Natural Born Citizen (born in country, to citizen parents (plural)) in 1789 A Dissertation on the Manners of Acquiring the Character and Privileges of a Citizen (1789)
The Naturalization Act of 1790, which states (in relevant part) "that the children of citizens [plural] of the United States that might be born beyond the sea, or out of the limits of the United States, should be considered as natural-born citizens"
Of course, the Act of 1790 was repealed by the Act of 1795 (which did NOT attempt to define or extend the definition for NBC). What the 1st Congress had tried to do in 1790 was to EXTEND the known definition (of born in country to citizen parentS) to those born outside of sovereign territory, to citizen parentS. Of course, they can't do that. Congress (by itself) doesn't have the Constitutional authority to define (or EXTEND) the Constitutional term "Natural Born Citizen." Only a SCOTUS decision on the intent of the framers, or an amendment to the Constitution can do that.
The same definition was referenced in the dicta of many early SCOTUS cases as well...some examples:
"THE VENUS, 12 U.S. (8 Cranch) 253, 289 (1814) (Marshall, C.J. concurring) (cites Vattel’s definition of Natural Born Citizen)
SHANKS V. DUPONT, 28 U.S. 242, 245 (1830) (same definition without citing Vattel)
MINOR V. HAPPERSETT, 88 U.S.162,167-168 ( 1875) (same definition without citing Vattel)
EX PARTE REYNOLDS, 1879, 5 Dill., 394, 402 (same definition and cites Vattel)
UNITED STATES V WARD, 42 F.320 (C.C.S.D. Cal. 1890) (same definition and cites Vattel.)"
http://www.scribd.com/doc/17519578/Kerchner-v-Obama-Congress-DOC-34-Plaintiffs-Brief-Opposing-Defendants-Motion-to-Dismiss
The New Englander, Volume 3 (1845) states: "The expression ‘citizen of the United States occurs in the clauses prescribing qualifications for Representatives, for Senators, and for President. In the latter, the term ‘natural born citizen’ is used and excludes all persons owing allegiance by birth to foreign states."
Note: the "New Englander" was NOT a student law review. The first student law review appeared 30 years later, in 1875/76 at the Albany Law School..
Vattel's definition for "natural born citizen" was read into the Congressional Record after the Civil War.
John Bingham, "father" of the 14th Amendment, the abolitionist congressman from Ohio who prosecuted Lincoln's assassins, REAFFIRMED the definition known to the framers by saying this:
commenting on Section 1992 said it means “every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.” (Cong. Globe, 39th, 1st Sess., 1291 (1866))"
SCOTUS, in an 1887 case cites Vattel a number of times and reitterates that his work was translated into English in 1760:
"Vattel in his Law of Nations, which was first printed at Neuchatel in 1758, and was translated into English and published in England in 1760" U S v. ARJONA, 120 U.S. 479 (1887)
It's interesting to note that (non binding) Senate Resolution 511, which attempted to proclaim that Sen. John McCain was a "Natural Born Citizen" because he was born to citizen parentS, even they referenced the (repealed) Naturalization Act of 1790: "Whereas such limitations would be inconsistent with the purpose and intent of the `natural born Citizen' clause of the Constitution of the United States, as evidenced by the First Congress's own statute defining the term `natural born Citizen'".
Obama, himself, was a signatory of that resolution knowing full well (no doubt) the requirement has always been about 2 citizen parents.
The point is, with the exception of the repealed Act of 1790 which tried to EXTEND the definition, the meaning of the term "Natural Born Citizen" (of the U.S.) has ALWAYS been about being born within the sovereign territory or jurisdiction of the U.S. to 2 citizen parents (& therefore parents who do NOT owe allegiance to another, foreign, country).
It's not clear what event that photo shows, since there is no date associated with it. Stanley Ann might have been the one taking the picture or the person making the bunny ears over Barack Sr.'s head. (If indeed the photo is of Stanley Sr. and Barack Sr.).
Yes indeed!
That’s him!! Good guy. Two years ago, my husband and I were at the Marine Corps Museum in Quantico and saw him there. We were told he was attending a Memorial Service so I didn’t feel right about rushing up to talk to him. Very tall and distinguished looking man.
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