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The Source of Obama’s Presidential Ineligibility
h2ooflife
A.R. Nash
8/14/2012
Excerpt:
"American is one of the most magnanimous nations on earth. It was so from the beginning, and that fact was inscribed in the Constitution itself. It provided that if a man met the age and residency requirements, he would be eligible for election or appointment to every office in the land, regardless of where he was born to to whom he was born as long as he was a citizen of the state in which he lived.
Everyone who previously had been a subject of one of the 13 colonies became a citizen of the union of the States of America via their new state citizenship which began in July of 1776 when the Declaration of Independence was ratified. So everyone except non-citizens could serve in every office and position in the land, and it didn’t matter how they acquired their citizenship, -whether naturally or by naturalization. As long as they were a citizen when the Constitution was ratified, they could be a representative, a Senator, a Chief Justice, a cabinet officer, a military officer, and even the Commander-in-Chief of the United States military forces (who happened to also be the President).
That was how it was because that was how the Constitution made it to be. But the Constitution had a built-in timer that started ticking from the time it was ratified. It didn’t pertain to anyone except that lone rare individual who might one day find himself faced with the option of running for the office of the President.
That timer involved an expiration situation for all of the citizens of America who were alive when the Constitution was ratified. They, and their children would all be eligible to serve as President, but an iron gate was closing on some of those born after the Constitution was ratified. Some of them were not U.S. citizens at birth because their foreign immigrant father was not a citizen. They drew their nationality from his and so they were not Americans.
That iron gate was the first stated restriction relating to the qualification to be President prohibiting one who was not a citizen when the Constitution was ratified, -or was born to such a one who was not an American when they were born. The timer that started ticking in 1788 when the Constitution was ratified was a biological timer. It set a limit on who could become President after the lives of all living Americans in 1788 had ended.
When they were all gone, the iron gate closed and no one could become President unless they were born as a natural American citizen. The era in which any male citizen could serve was then over. From that point and forward, only a natural born citizen could be the President & Commander-in-Chief.
So the sons of non-citizen immigrants could not be President, just as the U.S. born sons of foreign representatives, foreign visitors, native Americans, Gypsies, Asians and American women could not be President either.
To Congress, the courts, and the executive branch of the government, it didn’t matter where one was born, but to whom one was born. If one was born to a foreigner then one was not an American. One was a citizen of their father’s nation, a member of his society and tradition, and if that society and tradition was not American then a child born to such a person was not an American any more than his father was an American.
And it didn’t matter that one or more states granted such a “son of the soil” citizenship. The federal government did not recognize such citizenship for federal purposes. Such state citizens were protected by state laws and constitutional protections, and subject to them, as well a federal laws , but the office of the President was not a right, neither civil nor constitutional, and only those persons recognized as being natural citizens were eligible once the gate of time had closed on the generation that lived when the Constitution was ratified.
Following a Supreme Court opinion a hundred and ten years later (Wong Kim Ark) the federal government was forced to ascribe U.S. citizenship to children of un-naturalized immigrants. That didn’t change what the Constitution required of candidates for the presidency, but it changed the public’s and the government’s perception of what was required to merely be a citizen.
The misconception arose that merely being born within U.S. borders conferred U.S. citizenship, and worse still, that the U.S. citizenship of all persons born in the U.S. was the same, qualitatively, legally, and constitutionally. The first two assumptions are correct, but the last one is patently false. One form of citizenship is newer, (-assumed to be constitutional since 1899) while the other is the oldest form of citizenship in human history, i.e., natural membership via a father who was a member."
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View the complete article at:
http://h2ooflife.wordpress.com/2012/...ineligibility/
h2ooflife
A.R. Nash
8/14/2012
Excerpt:
"American is one of the most magnanimous nations on earth. It was so from the beginning, and that fact was inscribed in the Constitution itself. It provided that if a man met the age and residency requirements, he would be eligible for election or appointment to every office in the land, regardless of where he was born to to whom he was born as long as he was a citizen of the state in which he lived.
Everyone who previously had been a subject of one of the 13 colonies became a citizen of the union of the States of America via their new state citizenship which began in July of 1776 when the Declaration of Independence was ratified. So everyone except non-citizens could serve in every office and position in the land, and it didn’t matter how they acquired their citizenship, -whether naturally or by naturalization. As long as they were a citizen when the Constitution was ratified, they could be a representative, a Senator, a Chief Justice, a cabinet officer, a military officer, and even the Commander-in-Chief of the United States military forces (who happened to also be the President).
That was how it was because that was how the Constitution made it to be. But the Constitution had a built-in timer that started ticking from the time it was ratified. It didn’t pertain to anyone except that lone rare individual who might one day find himself faced with the option of running for the office of the President.
That timer involved an expiration situation for all of the citizens of America who were alive when the Constitution was ratified. They, and their children would all be eligible to serve as President, but an iron gate was closing on some of those born after the Constitution was ratified. Some of them were not U.S. citizens at birth because their foreign immigrant father was not a citizen. They drew their nationality from his and so they were not Americans.
That iron gate was the first stated restriction relating to the qualification to be President prohibiting one who was not a citizen when the Constitution was ratified, -or was born to such a one who was not an American when they were born. The timer that started ticking in 1788 when the Constitution was ratified was a biological timer. It set a limit on who could become President after the lives of all living Americans in 1788 had ended.
When they were all gone, the iron gate closed and no one could become President unless they were born as a natural American citizen. The era in which any male citizen could serve was then over. From that point and forward, only a natural born citizen could be the President & Commander-in-Chief.
So the sons of non-citizen immigrants could not be President, just as the U.S. born sons of foreign representatives, foreign visitors, native Americans, Gypsies, Asians and American women could not be President either.
To Congress, the courts, and the executive branch of the government, it didn’t matter where one was born, but to whom one was born. If one was born to a foreigner then one was not an American. One was a citizen of their father’s nation, a member of his society and tradition, and if that society and tradition was not American then a child born to such a person was not an American any more than his father was an American.
And it didn’t matter that one or more states granted such a “son of the soil” citizenship. The federal government did not recognize such citizenship for federal purposes. Such state citizens were protected by state laws and constitutional protections, and subject to them, as well a federal laws , but the office of the President was not a right, neither civil nor constitutional, and only those persons recognized as being natural citizens were eligible once the gate of time had closed on the generation that lived when the Constitution was ratified.
Following a Supreme Court opinion a hundred and ten years later (Wong Kim Ark) the federal government was forced to ascribe U.S. citizenship to children of un-naturalized immigrants. That didn’t change what the Constitution required of candidates for the presidency, but it changed the public’s and the government’s perception of what was required to merely be a citizen.
The misconception arose that merely being born within U.S. borders conferred U.S. citizenship, and worse still, that the U.S. citizenship of all persons born in the U.S. was the same, qualitatively, legally, and constitutionally. The first two assumptions are correct, but the last one is patently false. One form of citizenship is newer, (-assumed to be constitutional since 1899) while the other is the oldest form of citizenship in human history, i.e., natural membership via a father who was a member."
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View the complete article at:
http://h2ooflife.wordpress.com/2012/...ineligibility/