Tuesday, July 20, 2010

The Natural Born Presidency

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By Pieter

There has been much debate as to the Natural Born Citizen issue. I chose to examine the history of the Presidents and Vice-Presidents and their birthright relevance to the clause. Regardless of whether you consider the term citizen equivalent to the term natural born citizen, historically Presidents and VPs (including Joe Biden) born after the adoption of our Constitution (1787) have met the classical interpretation of a NBC (a citizen born on US territory to two (2) US citizens).

Historical affirmation of the NBC argument… “John A. Bingham, chief architect of the 14th Amendments first section, considered the proposed national law on citizenship as “simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents NOT owing allegiance to ANY foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN…” If this law was simply to reaffirm the common law doctrine then the condition of the parents would be totally irrelevant.”
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