Sunday, October 2, 2011

A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE WITH MARK LEVIN AND THE ELIGIBILITY ISSUE...NO DIALOGUE ALLOWED...

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Mark Levin 6pm-9pm EST
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Mark Levin is known to hang up in your face if you mention Obama's eligibility issue

HEY MARK, CHECK THIS OUT from ATTY. MARIO APUZZO:

Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 provided two standards to be met in order to be eligible to be President. The status of a "Citizen" of the United States was grandfathered for those who were born prior to the adoption of the Constitution. Those persons who were inhabiting the colonies (having been born in the colonies, naturalized there, or just residing there) and who adhered to the American Revolution became the original "citizens." For those born after that adoption, one had to be a "natural born" Citizen. Hence, today, one must be at least 35-years old, a 14-year resident of the U.S., and a "natural born" Citizen, not just a "Citizen" of the United States, in order to be eligible to be President.

On the definition of a "natural born" Citizen, by simple logic we can accept that the meaning cannot be the same as a "citizen" of the United States or else why would the Founders and Framers have given us a grandfather clause. And indeed, our U.S. Supreme Court has given a meaning to a "natural born" Citizen different from the meaning that it has given to a "citizen" of the United States. The U.S. Supreme Court has never defined an Article II "natural born" Citizen other than a child born in the country to citizen parents. Minor v. Happersett (1875) ("all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens" are "natives, or natural-born citizens"); U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) (holding that a child born in the United States to alien parents who are "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" is a "citizen" of the United States and confirming Minor's definition of a "natural-born citizen"). Also, the definition of a "natural born" Citizen is not found in any Congressional Act or treaty, which only define a "citizen" of the United States. Nor is it found in the Fourteenth Amendment, which Minor confirmed does not define a "natural-born citizen" and Wong Kim Ark confirmed only defines a "citizen" of the United States.

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