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Obama Got Served
American Thinker ^ | February 1, 2012 | Cindy Simpson

Posted on 02/01/2012 7:17:02 PM PST by Sallyven

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To: Kansas58

You challenged folks taking the Vattel position to cite law in support of their position, and someone responded with Minor v. Happersett, which defined “natural born citizen” in the same way Vattel defines “native”: born within the country to parents both of whom were citizens, a definition Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. fails to according to all accounts of his parentage, since his father was a British subject at the time of his birth.

You now assert that legislative law trumps common law based case law, as indeed it does.

So, rather than blustering “Baloney!” at fellow FReepers, please cite a Federal (or Georgia) statute defining “natural born citizen” in a way at variance with Minor v. Happersett.


61 posted on 02/01/2012 8:21:12 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: Kansas58
The VAST majority of Conservative leaders think that you are wrong on this point.

And every single scientist says that man global warming is real.

Why don't you provide a logical reason why the definition of a NBC doesn't only consist of being born to USC parents.

62 posted on 02/01/2012 8:22:21 PM PST by Ajnin (Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnocet!)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

I’m not sure that’s the question. The president is a citizen like anyone else and is subject to the courts like other citizens. If Obama were being ordered to appear in his capacity as president, a separation of powers argument could be made, but the question of eligibility to run is not related to his current status as president, and would apply equally to a private person running for their first term. If such a person would be subject to the court’s subpoena power, why should Obama escape it by virtue of the question being as to his eligibility for a second term rather than a first?

For what it’s worth, I don’t buy the various birther arguments, but I also wonder how, in a putative situation where a non-citizen did try to run, we’d ever get to the bottom of it. Candidates are not above the law, and people ought to have a mechanism to challenge eligibility.


63 posted on 02/01/2012 8:22:53 PM PST by MikeGranby
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To: Kansas58

Rubio is a citizen. Were both his parents citizens when he was born? If not, he’s not a NATURAL born citizen and can’t be president or vice president.

“Birthers” will go after any illegal president - GOP or DNC. It’s a constitution thang. No foreign influence and ties via family in the oval office. Blood runs thicker than water.


64 posted on 02/01/2012 8:23:31 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: Kansas58

IBTZ.


65 posted on 02/01/2012 8:24:21 PM PST by Godebert (NO PERSON EXCEPT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN!)
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To: Sallyven
Obama Got Served

....for all the good it will do.....

66 posted on 02/01/2012 8:25:45 PM PST by luvie (Unleash the American People!!)
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To: Kansas58
Kansas58, you are so wrong! The Constitution meant what it said the moment it was written. Obama is not a natural born citizen due to the fact that his "avowed" father on all of the forged documents that he has submitted state that his father was a Nigerian/British citizen.
67 posted on 02/01/2012 8:26:16 PM PST by WMarshal (Where is the next Sam Adams?)
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To: Kansas58

“Radical birthers”?????/
You’re showing your bias.

“However, Congress has changed the rules, more than once, as to which New Borns qualify, and which do not. “

You may be right—congresscritters do the damndest things!

Bath-House Barry Propped Up By Congress!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3aCfR8rmrw


68 posted on 02/01/2012 8:26:16 PM PST by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: Mortrey

Was Obama on the primary ballot in Florida?

If so, sounds like it’s time for any FL voter to challenge his eligibility - within the next 9 days.

Otherwise the time will be the day after the general election.


69 posted on 02/01/2012 8:26:22 PM PST by butterdezillion
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To: Kansas58; Berlin_Freeper; Hotlanta Mike; Silentgypsy; repubmom; HANG THE EXPENSE; Nepeta; ...


Rubio is qualified.

Crackpot nonsense. NOBODY with any authority agrees with your interpretation.
70 posted on 02/01/2012 8:27:17 PM PST by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: Sallyven; Chode

71 posted on 02/01/2012 8:27:21 PM PST by Morgana (I only come here to see what happens next. It normally does.)
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To: Kansas58

I found the quote below on line, purporting to be from the US Supreme Court, Minor v. Happersett,1875.

If this is a true and accurate quote, it contradicts your definitive statement:

“Natural Born Citizen” has ALWAYS meant “Citizen at the Moment of Birth”

Since I am not a lawyer, as you appear to be, please enlighten me. Thank you.

“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 parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first.”


72 posted on 02/01/2012 8:29:11 PM PST by map
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To: Fractal Trader; All

according to an unnamed source, Obama watched the live feed of the hearings


73 posted on 02/01/2012 8:29:45 PM PST by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: The Sons of Liberty
You are not capable of actually WINNING anything, as you have no head for logic or argument or strategy and you have no understanding of the law.

I represented MYSELF in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals once, and I WON, against multimillionaire abortionist George Tiller.

You kick everyone out of the Conservative movement who does not agree with your crackpot theories, and you will have about enough people left to fill a small room and clap for your crazy rants.

74 posted on 02/01/2012 8:29:48 PM PST by Kansas58
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To: MHGinTN
"(ahem, he wasn’t)"

What are you going to do with this information (evidence?) that you have been teasing us with for the past couple of weeks or longer?

What outlet do you require?

75 posted on 02/01/2012 8:31:04 PM PST by Deaf Smith
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To: Sallyven
Now, will we get the opportunity to debate the meaning of "subpoena"...
Probably not. The debate on the meaning of natural born citizen hasn't been undertaken by the vaunted 'whited sepulchers' so why should the meaning of subpoena be any different.

...or whether the law even applies to this president?
I guess that would depend upon which whited sepulcher you asked.

76 posted on 02/01/2012 8:31:08 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Sallyven

Hopefully it’s enough to try him for treason!


77 posted on 02/01/2012 8:31:18 PM PST by Lucky2 (NObama - Done in One)
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To: IbJensen; Art in Idaho; bitt; LucyT

A Cordial, Legal PING.


78 posted on 02/01/2012 8:31:24 PM PST by Graewoulf (( obama"care" violates the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND is illegal by the U.S. Constitution.))
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To: The_Reader_David; Kansas58

“someone responded with Minor v. Happersett, which defined “natural born citizen” in the same way Vattel defines “native”: born within the country to parents both of whom were citizens”

What Minor says regarding NBC:

“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 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.”

If Georgia decides to use Minor to ban Obama from the ballot, Georgia will have its butt handed to it by the federal courts.


79 posted on 02/01/2012 8:32:10 PM PST by Mr Rogers ("they found themselves made strangers in their own country")
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To: Kansas58
I represented MYSELF in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals once, and I WON, against multimillionaire abortionist George Tiller.

Good for you, but it doesn't make you any less ignorant!
80 posted on 02/01/2012 8:32:10 PM PST by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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