Hmmm....
Strong reaction with no specific rebuttal.
With Minor properly critiqued and the short lived naturalization Act of 1790 we have a complete and specific understanding of what was meant by the Constitution’s Article II, Section 1 clause. This expands and demonstrates that understanding as applied over time. That understanding has never been changed or overturned in over 200 years.
The worst part of this is not that those brought the current administration to power go away with it. It is that those charged with defending the Constitution from enemies - both foreign AND domestic allowed it to happen. Yes, everyone is “in on it”. Two constitutionally ineligible candidates in 2008. The perfect storm.
Now we have a legal, constitutional and historical mess of massive proportions. And to avoid it our government has created an Orwellian world where it believe it can ignore facts, scrub and change them on the web and create truth where there is none (think SR 511 on that last one!).
Happy 4th to you and all. Hopefully, we can celebrate another one next year!
“With Minor properly critiqued and the short lived naturalization Act of 1790 we have a complete and specific understanding of what was meant by the Constitution’s Article II, Section 1 clause.”
You IGNORE what Minor wrote to pretend it says something it expressly does NOT say. Here is the link, in case anyone wants to read Minor for themselves:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0088_0162_ZO.html
“The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their [p168] parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first. For the purposes of this case it is not necessary to solve these doubts. It is sufficient for everything we have now to consider that all children born of citizen parents within the jurisdiction are themselves citizens.”
To repeat:
“As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first. For the purposes of this case it is not necessary to solve these doubts.”
Natural born citizen HAD an established meaning prior to the Constitution, reflected in the citizenship laws of the new states. It was used as a direct replacement for natural born subject in their laws...