Loquaciousness doesn’t work for me either, FreepersUp. And longwindedness is a deterrent to being read by busy FReepers.
I will just add a couple thoughts to the discussion:
What will happen if and when the US Muslim population becomes really significant? Would it be wise to give the constitutional stamp of approval to a candidate who was born in the USA of non-citizen Arab or Pakistani parents? Wouldn’t that make you just a wee bit uneasy about that fellow’s deepest loyalties?
I maintain that the Obama situation is very close to that. And, if you believe a writer and investigator like Dinesh D’Souza (I do), Hussein’s loyalty is very much to the Third World in general and Kenya in particular, with the US and the UK seen by Obama as former colonial powers and adversaries.
I believe the Founders were contemplating something like that happening in their day when the US was a new and fragile republic, only with possible European loyalties being their concern. So, what to do? Put the NBC clause in the Constitution, based on the Vattel definition: of US born of citizen parents. Still no guarantee of allegiance to America but at least a giving the country an additional element of assurance.
To conclude, as a Tea Partier and a non-lawyer, I am interested in returning to originalism and trying to determine the Founders’ intent. Court precedents may control outcomes to litigation now but the object is to eventually replace the liberal judges who dominate the legal system today with their convenient and self-serving “living document” theory of the Constitution with strict constructionists who dedicate themselves to a Constitution which can only be changed by the amendment process. Creativity and originality should not count in constitutional interpretation.
It may take a lifetime to effect such changes, and the education of lawyers will also have to change but why not go for it? What has squishy liberalism done for us other than to send America to the edge of complete societal disaster?
Courts reverse themselves all the time. Putting conservative jurists on the bench might result in some key reversals and a return to a truly free constitutional republic.
I have a letter showing the Founders intent. It was penned by Franklin. He describes why the Founders are “clearing the woods and who for.
The Founders intent may be deemed not politically correct by some in this forum and around the country.