One doesn’t have to study Constitutional law to understand how the Supreme Court unanimously defined the single Constitutional term of natural-born citizen: all children born in the country to parents who were its citizens. The only allowance they made is that the children born abroad of citizen parents are “considered as” natural-born citizens in the Naturalization Act of 1790, however this required the father to be a citizen first.
And interestingly, the Congress took the wording out of the 1795 edition of the act.
Almost edge919. The “Act of 1790” was entirely rescinded beginning with the 1795 Nationality Act. The term “natural born citizen” never again appeared in US Code, in laws created by Congress, because only the Supreme Court has the authority to interpret the Constitution. The 1790 Act was one of the clever bits of misdirection employed by Barry's Constitutional Law professor, Larry Tribe, and his born-again liberal republican, Ted Olson, when they helped to insure that Republicans would be silenced by helping McCain be considered as a natural born citizen. The vehicle was April 2008 Senate Resolution 511, sponsored by Obama campaign chair Clare McCaskill and Senate Judiciary chair, Jim Leahy, cosponsored by Hillary, Barack, Webb, Menendez, and several other senators. He wasn't, and the Democrats did a thorough job of proving it over a period of about ten years. SR 511 was cobbled together to confuse people after the previous McCain eligibility bill, S. 2678, Feb. 2008, the ‘‘Children of Military Families Natural Born Citizen Act’’, FAILED to pass.
Those who have followed this for over four years now must be figuring that the heightened obot activity at FR reflects concern on the left. It is easy for the newbees to identify the obots. They almost always use lots Alinsky’s 5th rule, ridicule. If they use insults rather than reason, you can be sure they are committed leftists, or Muslims (they work together, but are decidedly not the same).
FR is a wonderful resource, but vulnerable to obot blitz attacks. The obots will so dominate a thread that may contain reasonable arguments that sometimes more of the comments are between obots than dialog involving honest questioners.
For anyone really interested in legal explanation Mario Apuzzo continues to clearly explain our legal history on his web site puzo1.blogspot.com. Leo Donofrio gave up on our legal system and canceled his law licenses as he appreciated the almost complete corruption of our legal system. He is a brilliant legal researcher whose site remains on line for those who want to learn, naturalborn citizen.wordpress.com. Both Apuzzo and Donofrio engage the more competent obots, SMRSTRAUSS, and Dr. Conspiracy, who have cleverly led us on most of the possible wild goose chases designed to convince those who don't have the time or patience to carefully analyze legal cases.
Don't allow bullies to lie with impunity. Always return to original sources, because they are clear. Take a little time to think about the following paragraph and you will understand why George Soros’ acolytes, Center for American Progress CIO, Eric Malamud and his buddy Tim Stanley, CEO of Justia.com, removed citations from twenty five plus on-line Supreme Court Decisions to Minor v. Happersett. That way the casual law student or intelligent questioner, using Google to search for citations to Minor V. Happersett to see if it is important to natural born citizen, would get few “Hits”. Stanley admitted the corruption perpetrated in 2008, but claimed it was a “programming error”. He also blocked access to the Wayback Machine so that it would not be so obvious that he had corrupted his own database, which had citations correct until the Summer of 2008.
Minor v. Happerset, 88 U.S. 162, (1875)
“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.”
For good measure, here are some other original sources:
Chief Justice, Founder, Framer, John Marshall said in The Venus, 12 U.S. 253 (1814):
“The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives or indigenes are those born in the country of parents who are citizens. Society not being able to subsist and to perpetuate itself but by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights.”
Ohio Congressman, Army Major, prosecuting Judge Advocate in the Lincoln assassination, and principal author of the 14th Amendment John Bingham addressed the House in 1866:
"I find no fault with the introductory clause [S 61 Bill], which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that 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…."
I could quote twenty other supreme court cases. There has never been another definition. Congress cannot pass a law affecting natural born citizenship. Eight efforts to amend Article II Section 1 were sponsored between 2002 and 2007, two by John Conyers, 1 by Robert Menendez, 1 by Orrin Hatch, and four others. The Conyers, Menendez and Hatch amendments would have rendered Obama eligibile, along with Schwarzenegger, Major Hassan, and every anchor child, born to aliens, to the presidency. The left would like you to believe that the definition, from our common-law, confirmed by Minor v. Happersett, has been changed by popular acclaim supported by our state-run media. More of our Constitution provisions are being attacked every day. If media declaration changes our Constitution, we have no Constitution.