Monday, August 27, 2012

If the Birther Issue Comes Up in Debate
Jack Cashill

When Mitt Romney said last week, "No one has ever asked to see my birth certificate," was he baiting a trap for the liberal MSM debate questioners? More

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  1. The statement "No one has ever asked to see my birth certificate" is in fact WRONG. That is because Reuters did ask to see Romney's birth certificate, and the Romney campaign in fact provided a copy.

    Obama has shown his birth certificate from Hawaii twice, the short form and the long form, and the officials in Hawaii of both political parties have repeatedly confirmed the facts on the birth certificates

    The fact that Obama was born in Hawaii is further confirmed by the Index Data file and by the birth notices sent to the newspapers by the DOH in 1961. At the time only the DOH could send notices to that section of the newspaper (it was called “Health Bureau Statistics”). And in 1961 the DOH only sent out notices for those that it had issued birth certificates to, and at the time it could only issue birth certificates to children born in Hawaii.

    The CONSERVATIVE secretary of state of Arizona accepted Hawaii’s most recent confirmation that Obama was born in Hawaii and ruled that Obama will be on the ballot in Hawaii.

    Oh, and by the way, Mitt Romney has shown only an image of a photostat copy of his short-form birth certificate, which does not even shown the name of the hospital or the doctor.

    The meaning of Natural Born Citizen refers to the PLACE of birth, not to the parents of a US-born citizen. The term comes from the common law, not from Vattel.

    “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).

    “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. Much less certain, however, is whether children born abroad of United States citizens are “natural born citizens” eligible to serve as 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.]

    And that is what five state courts and one federal court have ruled specifically on Obama. And one, Hollister vs McCain, ruled the same on John McCain.

    All seven courts ruled that the meaning of Natural Born Citizen was defined by the Wong Kim Ark Supreme Court case, which held that the meaning of Natural Born comes from the common law (hence not from Vattel), and that it refers to the place of birth, not to parents. And that is why when birthers and two-fers had a letter-writing campaign to the 600 or so members of the US Electoral College asking the members to change their votes to vote against Obama, not one elector changed her or his vote.

    For further research:

    ttp://tesibria.typepad.com/whats_your_evidence/scotus-natural-born-citizen-a-compendium.html

    And:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_born_citizen

    And:

    http://www.redstate.com/ironchapman/2012/05/24/english-common-law-and-american-law-a-digression/

    And:

    http://naturalborncitizenshipresearch.blogspot.com/

    And:

    http://www.obamabirthbook.com/http:/www.obamabirthbook.com/2012/05/early-use-of-the-term-natural-born-citizen/

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