“Simply put, subjective good faith no longer provides the safe harbor it once did.” “There is no room for a pure heart, empty head defense under Rule 11.”
Yes. American citizenship… but not natural-born citizenship. And… YOU WILL BE PROVEN WRONG ULTIMATELY AND BE REVEALED AS A FIFTH COLUMNIST.
YOU will be revealed as an empty-header birther clown.
https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/R42097.html
Congressional Research Service
Informing the legislative debate since 1914
Qualifications for President and the "Natural Born" citizenship Eligibility Requirement
Jack Maskell
Legislative Attorney
January 11, 2016
CRS Report
Prepared for Members annd Committees of Congress
Congressional Research Service
7-5700
www.crs.gov
R42097
[excerpt]
[43]
Citizenship of Parents Concerning specifically the reading into the Constitution of a two-citizen-parent requirement for “natural born” citizenship status, it should be noted that there is, significantly, no historical nor controlling legal holding in American jurisprudence to support the argument that parental citizenship governs and controls the eligibility of a native born United States citizen to be President. As indicated in the discussion of the history of the constitutional provision, there is also no justification for this unique theory, which would exclude an entire class of native born U.S. citizens from eligibility for the Presidency, in any of the statements or writings of the framers of the Constitution, or in the entire record of the ratification debates of the United States Constitution.200
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In 1825, in a significant and widely recognized work on the Constitution, William Rawle specifically noted that the term “natural born citizen” as used in the Constitution would include “every person born within the United States ... whether the parents are citizens or aliens....”201 Similarly, in his treatise on Citizenship of the United States, Frederick Van Dyne, Assistant Solicitor of the Department of State, explained in 1904 that the rule governing citizenship is not one derived from “international law” or the so-called “law of nations,” but is rather municipal law which “[e]very nation determines for itself’ and, in the United States, derives from the common law principle of jus soli, dependent “on the place of birth,” as modified by statute incorporating the principles of jus sanguinis to include the children of citizens “born out of the jurisdiction of the United States.”202 In reviewing Supreme Court decisional material, the author in this treatise noted that the Fourteenth Amendment and the 1866 civil rights act “reaffirm the fundamental principle of citizenship by birth” which “was generally held to be regulated by the common law, by which all persons born within the limits and allegiance of the United States were deemed to be natural born citizens thereof.”203
201 William Rawle, A VIEW OF THE CONSTITUTION THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, at 80 (1825).
202 Frederick Van Dyne, CITIZENSHIP OF THE UNITED STATES, at 3-4 (New York 1904).
203 Id. at 4, 12. Emphasis added. Van Dyne explained in his treatise on citizenship that children born in the United States, even of alien parents (other than for the exceptions of diplomats and hostile troops) are natural born citizens of the United States, and distinguished as mere obiter dictum contrary comments on “jurisdiction” by the Court in The Slaughter House Cases, 16 Wall. (83 U.S.) 36, 73 (1872) which, even by 1904, had been shown to be no longer controlling as to those points. Id. at 12-23.
BIRTHER SCORECARD (last updated 2015)
https://tesibria.typepad.com/whats_your_evidence/birther%20case%20list.pdf
Original decisions, total cases: 226
Birther wins: 0Total appellate court rulings: 120+
Birther wins: 0Total supreme court rulings: 35
Birther wins: 0
Birther blather has been laughed out of court, going down 381 consecutive times and never winning. Wiliam Arthur was Vice President and then President. Barack Obama was President for two terms. Kamala Harris is Vice President.
At no time have two citizen parents been required. The words speak only of the status of the candidate, not his or her parents.
George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Jackson
Chester Alan Arthur
Barack Hussein Obama II
Kamala Harris
Every time I see that man’s name - Barack Hussein Obama II - I am reminded that we had a president who did not understand the difference between II and Junior. He didn’t know how to pronounce the word corpsman either.
CITIZENSHIP STATUS of the PRESIDENTS OF USA - Grandfathered, Eligible, or Natural Born Citizen Frauds: http://www.kerchner.com/protectourliberty/Presidents-Grandfathered-or-NBC-or-Frauds.pdf