Monday, October 14, 2013

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Impeachment Not Required: 
Pitchforks Only Please
By Peter Kelley | The Free Patriot

If I were to go to your company, introduce myself, flash some identification, tell you I had a degree in business finance, and then ask that you hire me for the open position as the head of finance, what would you say? Would you walk me around the company, show me my new desk, introduce me to my new subordinates in finance, and welcome me to my new job? Hell no, you wouldn't. You would ask me for a resume, some documentation, I would have to fill out some paperwork, a w-2, show my identification, and then I would wait while you ran a background check on me. So how is it that we have a sitting president that we know nothing about? Well, we actually do know something about him, but he denies everything we do know.

First of all, we know he is not a “Natural Born Citizen”, and therefore is not eligible to be president per Article II section 1 of the United States Constitution. Many opponents of this line of thought would try to muddle the subject by bringing up later constitutional amendments or even bills that have the word “naturalized citizen”. The solution to define this is simply noted in a letter dated 25 July 1787 from John Jay, to George Washington in which he wrote “Permit me to hint, whether it would be wise and reasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of foreigners into the administration of our national Government: and to declare expressly that the command in chief of the American army shall not be given to, nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen”. The intent was to insure foreign influence would not be rendered over the office of president.

The constitution does not define “Natural Born Citizen” but there are court cases that do. In the Supreme Court Case 88 U.S. 162 Minor v. Happersett, argued: February 9, 1875 — Decided: March 29, 1875, the following opinion in part by Chief Justice Wait: “The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.”

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