Barack Obama is an illegal president, period
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American politicians and the media are lying to
the American people. They do so because they hope
that their complicity in the greatest fraud in
In the Russian language there is a term called "vranyo." It is loosely defined as telling a white lie or a semi-truth. It may contain fantasy or involve the suppression of unpleasant parts of the truth.
In regard to Obama's ineligibility and his alleged felonies, politicians and the media expect the American people to respond in this way:
"You know that you are lying, I know that you are lying, and you know that I know that you are lying, but we both smile and nod in agreement."
Barack Obama, according to Article II, Section I,
Clause 5 of the U. S. Constitution, is an illegal
President. The law requires a candidate for the
Presidency to be a "natural born citizen," that is,
a second generation American, a
Obama's father was a citizen of
There is no ambiguity, although those who wish to undermine the Constitution would like the American people to think otherwise.
The
difference between "citizen," that is, born in
the
Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 states:
"No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."
A first draft of what would become Article II, Section 1, Clause 5, submitted by Alexander Hamilton to the Constitutional Convention on June 18, 1787 stated:
"No person shall be eligible to the office of
President of the
Fearing foreign influence on a future President and Commander in Chief of the American military, the future first U.S. Supreme Court Justice, John Jay, on July 25, 1787, asked the convention presiding officer George Washington to strengthen the requirements for the Presidency:
"Permit me to hint, whether it would be wise and seasonable 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 term "or a Citizen of the United States at
the time of the Adoption of this Constitution"
referred to loyal Americans who lived in the
thirteen colonies at the time of the Revolutionary
War, thus establishing the first generation of
United States "citizens," upon which future "natural
born" citizens would be created. The Founders, under
Article II, allowed these original
As understood by the Founders and as applied to the U.S. Constitution, the term "natural born citizen" derived its meaning less from English common law, than from the codification of natural law described by Emerich de Vattel in his 1758 book "The Law of Nations."
They knew from reading Vattel that a "natural born citizen" had a different standard from just "citizen," for he or she was a child born in the country to two citizen parents (Vattel, Section 212 in original French and English translation).
That is the definition of a "natural born citizen," as recognized by numerous U.S. Supreme Court and lower court decisions (The Venus, 12U.S. 253(1814), Shanks v. Dupont, 28 U.S. 242 (1830), Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1856), Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1875) , Ex parte Reynolds, 20 F. Cas. 582 (C.C.W.D. Ark 1879), United States v. Ward, 42 F. 320 (1890); Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), Ludlam, Excutrix, & c., v. Ludlam, 26 N.Y. 356 (1863) and more) and the framers of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the 14th Amendment, the Naturalization Act of 1795, 1798, 1802, 1885, and our modern 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1401.
There are historical arguments too numerous to include in a short article, which explain why the definition of "natural born subject," as found in the English common law, was not used as the basis of "natural born citizen" in the U.S. Constitution because Great Britain was a monarchy and the new nation was a constitutional republic.
Legal precedent and interpretation leave no doubt regarding the meaning of "natural born citizen."
The Venus, 12
"The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives or indigenes are those born in the country of parents who are citizens."
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60
"The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens."
John Bingham, father of the 14th Amendment, which gave citizenship to American slaves after the Civil War, stated on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1862:
"All from other lands, who by the terms of
[congressional] laws and a compliance with their
provisions become naturalized, are adopted citizens
of the
In 1866, Bingham also stated on the House floor:
"Every human being born within the jurisdiction
of the
Minor v. Happersett , 88
"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. Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first."
"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."
In the first of many recent efforts to amend the Constitutional requirement of "natural born" citizenship, Democrat House Rep. Jonathon B. Bingham introduced House Joint Resolution 33 (1975), which clearly recognized the distinction between "citizen" and "natural born citizen."
"Provides that a citizen of the
In a September 2008 Michigan Law Review article entitled "Originalism and the Natural Born Citizen Clause," Lawrence B. Solum, then John E. Cribbet Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law, wrote:
"What was the original public meaning of the
phrase that establishes the eligibility for the
office of President of the
If you are unwilling to accept the exhaustive legal documentation regarding the true meaning of "natural born" citizenship, you may also try the common sense question:
Why has every President since Martin van Buren been a second generation American except Obama and Chester A. Arthur, who also lied about his personal history?
According to his own autobiography "Dreams from My Father," Barack Obama is not a "natural born citizen" and, therefore, is an illegal President. Every law that he has signed and every appointment that he has made is invalid.
Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. is a retired colonel
with 29 years of service in the