Patriotic Americans deeply concerned about the condition of our beleaguered Constitution and Republic have been challenging Barack Obama’s constitutional eligibility to hold the highest office in our land ever since he tossed his hat in the ring in 2008.
A variety of definitions for the Natural Born Citizen constitutional requirement have been batted around by numerous people with varied agendas, leaving the debate largely stuck right where it started in 2008. What does the term really mean?
Every Supreme Court Justice knows what the term means, which is why the Supreme Court prefers to never hear the case. The term Natural Born Citizen refers to a citizen by Natural Law (aka the Laws of Nature), the natural offspring of a Father who was at the time of the child’s birth, a legal Citizen of the United States. The nation of the Father is thereby the nation of the child, via Natural Law.
They would have to remove Barack Obama from office in handcuffs, and few other co-conspirators along with him. Obama supporters would not take kindly to such a move against America’s first multi-racial resident of the people’s White House.
The term is not based upon English Common Law or 14th Amendment cases often wrongly referred to as “precedent.” The term is based in Natural Law recorded by Vattel in his treaties called The Law of Nations, a book about the Laws of Nature, Americas founding principles.
Most of the “birthers” cherry-picked one sentence out of Vattel’s entire book and hang their hat on that one sentence – claiming wrongly as a result, that Natural Born Citizens “are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens.” Note how they posted the entire paragraph, but highlight only the one line.
Why did they cherry-pick this one sentence? Vattel’s book The Law of Nations is a vital read for every patriotic American seeking to fully understand this term and the true foundation for all things American, Natural Law. Read it cover to cover, without cherry-picking…only then will you understand Natural Born Citizen.
Why didn’t the “birthers” cherry-pick this sentence from the same paragraph in Vattel’s book on Natural Law and Natural Born?
-”As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights.”
- or this sentence –“The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; and these become true citizens merely by their tacit consent.”
- or this one –“I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country.”
Why did “birthers” single in on one sentence and completely ignore the rest of the paragraph, in fact, the balance of the entire book? Is it possible that they just didn’t do their homework? Or is it more likely that they chose that sentence because it suits their agenda, rather than the obvious truth? You decide!
What hidden agenda?
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Natural Born Citizen refers to the meaning of Natural Born in the common law. There is no accepted meaning of Natural Born in "natural law" because there are a dozen natural law philosphers and they all disagree. Sure Vattel said two citizen parents, but he is not even mentioned ONCE in the Federalist Papers, while the common law is mentioned about twenty times.
ReplyDelete“Under the longstanding English common-law principle of jus soli, persons born within the territory of the sovereign (other than children of enemy aliens or foreign diplomats) are citizens from birth. Thus, those persons born within the United States are "natural born citizens" and eligible to be President. ...."---- Edwin Meese, et al, THE HERITAGE GUIDE TO THE CONSTITUTION (2005) [Edwin Meese was Ronald Reagan’s attorney general, and the Heritage Foundation is a well-known Conservative organization.]
“Natural born citizen. Persons who are born within the jurisdiction of a national government, i.e. in its territorial limits, or those born of citizens temporarily residing abroad.” — Black’s Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition
“What is a natural born citizen? Clearly, someone born within the United States or one of its territories is a natural born citizen.” (Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on OCTOBER 5, 2004)--Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT).
"Prior to the adoption of the constitution, the people inhabiting the different states might be divided into two classes: natural born citizens, or those born within the state, and aliens, or such as were born out of it. The first, by their birth-right, became entitled to all the privileges of citizens; the second, were entitled to none, but such as were held out and given by the laws of the respective states prior to their emigration. ...St. George Tucker, BLACKSTONE'S COMMENTARIES: WITH NOTES OF REFERENCE TO THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA. (1803)
"Therefore every person born within the United States, its territories or districts, whether the parents are citizens or aliens, is a natural born citizen in the sense of the Constitution, and entitled to all the rights and privileges appertaining to that capacity."---William Rawle, A VIEW OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 2d ed. (1829)
By the way, Vattel never recommended that the sovereign of a nation should be even a citizen of that nation, or that any official of a nation should be a citizen of that nation. The words "Natural Born Citizen" are a translation of Vattel's word "indigines"--and they could even be a mistranslation. In any case, the words "Natural Born Citizen" did not appear in any translation of Vattel until AFTER the US Constitution was adopted.