Obama Presidential Eligibility - An Introductory Primer!

[Jake Martinez]

Dear Fellow Patriots:

What follows is a “must read” recently updated Obama Presidential Eligibility Introductory Primer, by Stephen Tonchen, which is different from and should not be confused with, the WorldNetDaily Obama Eligibility Primer.  The Tonchen Primer initially appeared on the Internet in June 2009, more than a year prior to the WND Primer-You Decide:

Obama Presidential Eligibility - An Introductory Primer!-Posted on PeoplesMag.net-By Stephen Tonchen-Revised on December 1, 2011:

These are pertinent excerpts from this primer:

“UPDATE (4/27/2011): Now that President Obama has released his long-form birth certificate, questions 31 through 34 in this Primer have become moot [91]. They are retained here for posterity purposes only. The other 33 questions and corresponding answers remain entirely unaffected. Those questions have acquired even greater importance and relevance, now that Obama’s newly-released long-form birth certificate has further substantiated his dual nationality at birth.

Introduction

The Philadelphia Convention adopted the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787 [01]. Anyone born after that date must be a natural born citizen in order to be eligible to serve as President of the United States [02].

What is a natural born citizen? Even if President Barack Obama is a U.S. citizen by birth, is he a U.S. natural born citizen?

According to an article which appeared in the Michigan Law Review in 2008, we know two things for sure about the meaning of “natural born citizen”:

• Anyone who is born in the United States, of parents who are U.S. citizens, is definitely, without doubt, a natural born citizen.
• Anyone who acquires U.S. citizenship through naturalization, after his or her birth, is definitely not a natural born citizen [03].

But what about a child born overseas to U.S.-citizen parents? And what about a U.S.-born child of an alien parent? These children are U.S. citizens by modern-day law. But are they natural born citizens? So far, Federal law, the Constitution and the courts have not answered these questions.

In 2004, Senator Don Nickles predicted that, if these questions remain unanswered, they will someday become “a real issue”:

The definition of this term [”natural born citizen”] is an issue that has been debated in legal circles for years and has never been ruled on by the courts. Clarification is needed before this becomes a real issue. (Nickles)

Senator Nickles’ prediction has come true.

Barack Obama—regardless of where he was born—acquired British/Kenyan citizenship (in addition to U.S. citizenship) at birth. His citizenship status, at birth, was “governed” by the British Nationality Act of 1948 (see Barack Obama’s “fight the smears” website). In light of these facts, an increasing number of Americans are concerned that President Obama might not be a “natural born citizen” and therefore might not be eligible, under the Constitution, to serve as president [04].

Members of the mainstream news media generally believe that all persons born in the United States are “natural born citizens”, regardless of their parents’ citizenship. Although this belief is widely held, the Supreme Court has never accepted it. On the contrary, our nation’s highest court has consistently used the term “natural born citizen” only in reference to persons born on U.S. soil, to U.S.-citizen parents.

In Scott v. Sandford (1856), the Supreme Court characterized, as unexceptionable (incapable of being criticized), the viewpoint that:

• “natural-born citizens are those born in the country of parents who are citizens” (Vattel, as quoted in the majority opinion in Scott v. Sandford, 1856)

In Minor v. Happersett (1874), the Supreme Court defined two classes of persons. One class consisted of U.S.-born children of U.S.-citizen parents. The second class consisted of all other U.S.-born children. Members of the first class were “natural born citizens”. Regarding members of the second class, the Court doubted whether they were even citizens, let alone natural born citizens. The Court distinguished “natural born citizens” from “aliens or foreigners”, suggesting that a “natural born citizen” is one who is not a “foreigner” (foreign citizen) at birth [05].

The United States has had 44 presidents (including Barack Obama). Of these 44 presidents, 34 were born after 1787 (the year the Constitution was adopted) and were therefore subject to the “natural born citizen” requirement. With only two exceptions, every one of these 34 presidents was born in the United States, of parents who were both U.S. citizens (Natural Born Presidency). The two exceptions were Chester Arthur and Barack Obama. While running for office in 1880, Chester Arthur lied to newspaper reporters about his family history (and later burned most of his family records), thereby concealing the fact that, when he was born, his father (William Arthur) was British subject, not a U.S. citizen (Historical Breakthrough - Chester Arthur).

President Obama’s “fight the smears” website, his published long-form birth certificate, and his autobiography identify his father as Barack Hussein Obama Sr., a Kenyan native who never became a U.S. citizen. President Obama is no longer a Kenyan citizen today, but when he was born, he received British/Kenyan citizenship by descent from his father (FactCheck.org: Does Barack Obama have Kenyan citizenship?). The year 2008 was the first time in history that the United States knowingly elected a post-1787-born president whose parents were not both U.S. citizens. Moreover, 2008 was the first time that the U.S. knowingly elected a post-1787-born president who was a foreign citizen (as well as a U.S. citizen) at the time of his birth [06].

Since President Obama acquired foreign nationality (in addition to U.S. citizenship) at birth, his “natural born citizen” status is in doubt [07]. This doubt is not based on the imaginings of tin-foil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorists on the lunatic fringe of society. This doubt comes from what the Supreme Court has said, as well as a variety of other historical and legal sources, which are presented and discussed here.

In the following pages, we introduce the Obama eligibility controversy, in question-and-answer format, for a non-technical general audience. We’ve double-checked the facts presented here, cited their sources, and believe them to be correct. Please contact us if you find any material in this Primer that you believe to be inaccurate.

Continue Reading:

http://people.mags.net/tonchen/birthers.htm

Question: When will Americans wake up?

On or about March 2, 2010, the following article and/or blog post revealed that Sarah P. Herlihy, an associate attorney specializing in litigation at the Chicago law firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP, which is a law firm with ties to Obama, published an essay in the Chicago-Kent Law review on February 22, 2006 entitled “Amending the Natural Born Citizen Requirement: Globalization as the Impetus and the Obstacle” that floated the idea of a “takeover” of our government by a foreign power. Herlihy’s essay was widely disseminated on the internet during the 2008 presidential campaign as rumors surfaced that Obama and possibly McCain did not meet the “natural born Citizen” requirement laid out in Article II, Section 1, paragraph 5 of the U.S. Constitution:

Was there a conspiracy to put Obama in the White House?-Posted on The Post & EMail-By Sharon Rondeau-On March 2, 2010:

http://www.thepostemail.com/2010/03/02/was-there-a-conspiracy-to-pu... 

On or about June 12, 2011, the following article and/or blog post revealed overwhelming evidence that we in fact have a fraud and a usurper that resides in the people’s White House, despite the overt lack of journalistic investigating on the part of the American press. The new evidence indicates that the conspiracy to carry out that fraud was much broader than originally thought, which includes a forty-year story that requires a book, not a column, to tell because the evidence suggests that our President was being groomed from a very young age for the moment in history that would end American supremacy in the world, and usher in a new era of Global Marxist Governance:

The Greatest Fraud Perpetrated in American History!-Posted on The Post & Email-By JB Williams-On June 12, 2011:

http://www.thepostemail.com/2011/06/07/evidence-broadens-obama-natu...

On or about June 13, 2011, retired Maj. Gen. Paul Valley revealed that the “Certificate of Live Birth” that was released by the White House, on or about April 27, 2011, as “proof positive” of President Obama’s Hawaiian birth was a forgery, but that the FBI was covering the fraud and no one in Congress was willing to tackle the situation because of fears of a “black backlash,” if the failings of the nation’s first black president were revealed.

Source:

Ex-CIA: ‘Forged document’ released as birth certificate!-Posted on WND.com-By Bob Unruh-On June 15, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=311433

Continue Reading:

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/the-greatest-fraud-perpetr...

Note:  25 U.S. Supreme Court Opinions That Defined “Natural Born Citizen” Were Sabotaged In The Run Up To The ’08 Presidential Election!

On or about October 20, 2011, Leo Donofrio, a New Jersey attorney who brought the first legal challenge to Barack Obama's occupancy in the Oval Office to the U.S. Supreme Court published a report that revealed that 25 U.S. Supreme Court Opinions that defined “Natural Born Citizen” were sabotaged in the run up to the ’08 Presidential Election.

Source:

25 U.S. Supreme Court Opinions That Defined “Natural Born Citizen” Were Sabotaged In The Run Up To The ’08 Presidential Election!-Posted on Natural Born Citizen-By Leo Donofrio, Esq.-On October 20, 2011:

http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/justia-com-surgi...

On or about October 20, 2011, the following article and/or blog post revealed that someone had been incredibly busy in June 2008 working on an illegal front invisible to the public by searching and altering Supreme Court Cases published at Justia.com, which cite the only case in American history - Minor v. Happersett (1875) - to directly construe Article 2 Section 1’s natural-born citizen clause in determining a citizenship issue as part of its holding and precedent. In this unanimous decision, the Supreme Court defined a “native or natural-born citizen” as a person born in the US to parents who were both citizens, a definition that excludes President Obama from eligibility:

JustiaGate!-Posted on Examiner-By Dianna Cotter, Portland Civil Rights Examiner-On October 20, 2011:

http://www.examiner.com/civil-rights-in-portland/justiagate

On or about October 23, 2011, the following WND article and/or blog post revealed that Leo Donofrio, a New Jersey attorney who brought the first legal challenge to Barack Obama's occupancy in the Oval Office to the U.S. Supreme Court had published a report revealing that references to a U.S. Supreme Court decision addressing the definition of "natural-born citizen" were scrubbed at one of the key online resources for legal documents:

Eligibility rulings vanish from Net!-Posted on WND.com-By Bob Unruh-On October 23, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=358645

Continue Reading:

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/the-greatest-fraud-perpetr...

Note:  Congressional Staff, to include a legislative attorney, within the Congressional Research Service (CRS) are attempting to redefine the eligibility clause in our Constitution as a means of convincing the American public that President Obama meets the eligibility requirements.

On or about November 14, 2011, it was also revealed that the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the research arm of Congress, has launched a defense of Barack Obama's presidential eligibility with a 50-page report that has been described as a "polemic aimed at convincing readers" Obama meets the requirements ...:

Source:

Congressional staff gives Constitution new meaning: ‘Researchers target 'eligibility,' say 'native born' really is 'natural born!'-Posted on WND.com-By Bob Unruh-On November 30, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=373085

Additionally, it was revealed that Jack Maskell, a legislative attorney with the Congressional Research Service (CRS), issued yet another in a series of reports on presidential eligibility that appears aimed at providing members of Congress with talking points to respond to constituents contending that Barack Hussein Obama is not a "natural born citizen" within the meaning of Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution, along with redefining the eligibility clause by equating "native born" with the constitutional "natural born" citizen:

Source:

Congressional ‘scholar’ shilling for Obama!-Posted on WND.com-By Jerome R. Corsi-On November 30, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=372977

Question:  Did a Pennsylvania District Court rule that President Obama was ineligible for Presidency in 2008 and ordered the DNC to withdraw him or is it just another distraction?

The following article and/or blog post seems to make that case-You Decide:

Pennsylvania District Court Ruled Obama ineligible for Presidency in 2008 and ordered DNC to withdraw him!-Posted on Press-By PC-On October 2, 2011:

http://presscore.ca/2011/?p=4615

Note:  My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

Was there a conspiracy to put Obama in the White House?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/was-there-a-conspiracy-to-...

The Greatest Fraud Perpetrated in American History!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/the-greatest-fraud-perpetr...

Could the President’s newly released COLB be a forgery?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/could-the-president’s-newl...

Congress report concedes Obama eligibility unvetted!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/congress-report-concedes-o...

DC knows that Obama is ineligible for office!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/dc-knows-that-obama-is-ine...

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-underst...

Note:  If you have a problem viewing any of the listed blog posts please copy web site and paste it on your browser. Be aware that some of the articles and/or blog posts or videos listed within the contents of the above blog post(s) may have been removed by this administration because they may have considered them to be too controversial.  Sure seems like any subject matter that may shed some negative light on this administration is being censored-What happened to free speech?-You Decide.

“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

Semper Fi!

Jake