Posted on 01/31/2012 9:49:41 PM PST by reformedcrat
Forceful, unapologetic articulation is a new requirement for Republicans: it is not only a good track record or voting record, conservatives also demand the ability to forcefully articulate conservative principles. Just ask Texas Governor Rick Perry.
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Problem is they don’t teach Government in schools today. To busy teaching the latest feel good happy horsesh@t. If some here would take the time to read the documents that actually do exist written by those who wrote our Constitution, they might sound at least half educated when they post their cr@p.
That case states: “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.”
An extensive analysis of the issue was conducted by Titus, who has taught constitutional law, common law and other subjects for 30 years at five different American Bar Association-approved law schools. He also was the founding dean of the College of Law at Regent University, a trial attorney and special assistant U.S. attorney in the Department of Justice.
“‘Natural born citizen’ in relation to the office of president, and whether someone is eligible, was in the Constitution from the very beginning,” he said. “Another way of putting it; there is a law of the nature of citizenship. If you are a natural born citizen, you are a citizen according to the law of nature, not according to any positive statement in a Constitution or in a statute, but because of the very nature of your birth and the very nature of nations.”
If you “go back and look at what the law of nature would be or would require … that’s precisely what a natural born citizen is …. is one who is born to a father and mother each of whom is a citizen of the U.S. or whatever other country,” he said.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/cite-obama-with-contempt-lawyers-urge-judge/
Dang. I don’t need a law degree or any knowledge of what the so-called constitutional law experts say or care to. Furthermore, I don’t care if we who know the truth are outnumbered 100-1 or worse.
How’s bout some NATURAL COMMON SENSE? Citizen at birth? Okeeeeey dokey. Words do mean things, and if plain ol’ vanilla “citizen” is all you need to express what is meant, then why go to all the trouble and wasted words and ink and put in there the term “natural born”. I don’t even need to see any contemporaneous thoughts expressed in other documentation or a SCOTUS decision to see the delusional twistings of thought needed to dismiss it so cavalierly.
Whatever. I’m done with this conversation. Won’t waste my words on closed minds that expect me to suspend natural reasoning, sheesh
Yes, agreed.
The founders wanted to prevent a usurper or a person of divided loyalty from candidacy for the nation’s highest office.
Or put another way, someone who exactly fits the description of Obama.
WRONG
Nobody with any legal authority agrees with you.
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