(Mar. 18, 2023) — The Constitution requires the president to be a “natural born citizen”. However, the term is not defined in the Constitution. Neither has a law or court ruling been made more exactly delineating the constraints of the term. The purpose of this post is not to re-hash the arguments about what “natural born citizen” means, but to outline a process that generates a legal standard for how it is enforced. The States are key to this process.
9. Read the dozen of legal essays and court briefs written by constitutional and citizenship expert Attorney Mario Apuzzo on being a “natural born Citizen of the United States” and the pretenders and usurpers in three major political parties (Democrat, Republican, and Socialist parties) – who invalidly claimed such birth status – at his legal blog: http://puzo1.blogspot.com
Natural Born Citizens Are The 3 Leaf Clover Kind of Citizens Not The 4 Leaf Clover Kind | by CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr. (Retired)
(17 Mar 2023) — Regarding the term “natural born citizen” (NBC) in our U.S. Constitution’s presidential eligibility clause and Principles of Natural Law, it is not a very limited club and category of citizenship. In fact it is exactly the opposite. NBCs are the most common, garden variety, most populous group or kind of citizenship that exists in a typical nation and is typically by far the most populous kind, group, or class of citizenship in virtually all nations.
Thus in our United States, we have a very, very large pool of NBCs from which to choose a President and Command in Chief of our military. We don’t need to search the ranks of those with foreign allegiances and foreign influence and foreign powers claims on them by birth such as Barack Hussein Obama and Kamala Harris have. The pool of NBCs is vast in our nation. As in this article’s title and analogy: “Natural Born Citizens Are The 3 Leaf Clover Kind of Citizens Not The 4 Leaf Clover Kind”, they are not rare but the most frequently occurring type in nature and a nation.” Those that are born in the country to two citizens (natural born, born, or naturalized citizens themselves) of the country when their child is born in the country, i.e., the “natural born citizens” are the largest group/kind of citizens in this country and in any nation. The natural born Citizen’s values and traditions in general define the culture of a nation.
An idea: Go buy a three leaf clover pin and pin it on your lapel. And when people ask you why you are wearing a three leaf clover pin, tell them what it signifies about being a “natural born citizen” of the United States and that Obama, Harris, Haley, Ramaswamy, Cruz, Rubio, and Jindal and some others seek high national office are not. Then explain why. Because their fathers were not a U.S. citizen when Obama or the others listed were born. They do not pass the “Three Legged Stool Test” for being a “natural born Citizen” of the United States.
In fact, for example, Obama’s father was not even an immigrant to the USA and was never even a permanent resident here. Obama’s father Obama Sr. was a foreigner simply sojourning here for a couple years on a student or diplomatic visa. And then he went home to Kenya.
Thus Barack Hussein Obama Jr. was born to a non-U.S. citizen, non-immigrant, foreigner father and was thus born with foreign influence on him and foreign citizenship via his father in the truest sense of the meaning of that terminology as it was intended to mean and used by John Jay in his letter to General George Washington about what kind of citizen and what type of citizenship is required to serve as the President and Commander in Chief of our Army for our new nation in the future. And General Washington agreed that it should only be a “natural born Citizen” of the new nation, for this singular most powerful office in our new nation, with the grandfather clause put into Article II of that requirement to exempt the generation there at the time the Constitution was adopted.
And then as another example of ignoring the original intent meaning and purpose of the “natural born Citizen” clause in Article II Section 1 Clause 5 of our U.S. Constitution, you have with Ted Cruz a person born in a foreign country (Canada) to a father who was not a U.S. Citizen. Ted Cruz was also born with multiple allegiances and citizenship at birth under various statutory and other country’s national laws and constitutions: Cuba via his father, U.S. via his mother, and Canada by place of birth. He was thus not a “natural born” Citizen (adjectives mean something as to the kind of Citizen) of the United States nor of any country under Natural Law since he was born with divided allegiance requirements at birth. A citizen yes, but a “natural born Citizen” no!
For any other political office in our country beyond the President and Vice President, ordinary basic U.S. citizenship via any statutory law or act of Congress is fine. But for the President and the Vice President, you must be a “natural born” Citizen per Natural Law and have 100% sole allegiance to this nation at and by birth in the country to two citizens (natural born, born, or naturalized citizens themselves) of the country when their child is born in the country, and no innate allegiance to any other country at birth, nor with any innate allegiance foreign influence claim on you by another country or power via your birth circumstances, determined solely by the events of the nature at your birth, not by any retro-active after the fact citizenship status granted by the laws or legislative acts of man. Only nature and the circumstances of your birth can make you a “natural born Citizen“. No man-made law or act of Congress can do so after the fact.
Again, those who are born in the country to two citizens (natural born, born, or naturalized citizens themselves) of the country when their child is born in the country, i.e., the “natural born citizens” are the largest group and kind of citizens in this country and any country. Natural born citizens are second generation citizens, born to citizen parents in the country. The three leaf clover kind, not the four leaf clover kind!
9. Read the dozen of legal essays and court briefs written by constitutional and citizenship expert Attorney Mario Apuzzo on being a “natural born Citizen of the United States” and the pretenders and usurpers in three major political parties (Democrat, Republican, and Socialist parties) – who invalidly claimed such birth status – at his legal blog: http://puzo1.blogspot.com
2024 Election Cycle: Haley Announces; Ramaswamy May Seek Nomination | by Sharon Rondeau | ThePostEmail.com
(Feb. 15, 2023) — As she suggested in recent interviews, on Tuesday former United Nations Ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nimrata Nikki Haley (R) announced she will seek the 2024 Republican nomination for president.
According to Politico on Monday, attorney, businessman and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy “has his eye on the presidency.”
Of his life narrative Wikipedia reports:
Ramaswamy was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio.[8][9] His parents immigrated from Kerala, India. His father, V.G., graduated from a regional engineering college in Kerala, and later worked at the General Electric Plant in Evendale, Ohio. His mother, Geetha, was a geriatric psychiatrist in Cincinnati.[10] The Ramaswamys are Brahmin-caste Hindus. Vivek has argued that American-style capitalism provides an antidote to the caste system in India by offering lower-caste citizens more economic opportunities. [11]
Politico‘s Daniel Lippman reported that “Ramaswamy doesn’t necessarily want to run on his businessman track record. Instead he is planning to launch an ideas-based campaign focused on revitalizing the American spirit and bringing back a culture of merit into society.” Lippman additionally quotes Ramaswamy as having told him, “I believe that I’ve developed a vision for American national identity that I have deep conviction for and is the product of my own journey of having lived the gifts that this country has afforded me. And the combination of both doing it intellectually and having personally experienced that vision of our nation makes me well suited to articulate that and deliver on it.” … continue reading at: https://www.thepostemail.com/2023/02/15/haley-announces-ramaswamy-may-seek-nomination/
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My comment on these two new names in the news as candidates or potential presidential candidates:
Per the public information available at this time regarding the citizenship status of both individuals’ parents, neither of these two newly declared or potential candidates is constitutionally eligible to be President and Commander-in-Chief of our military as neither is a “natural born Citizen of the United States“.
They were born in the USA to foreign citizen parents who were per the publicly available information not U.S. Citizens when their child was born. Thus they are clearly not a “natural born Citizen” of the United States. And furthermore, depending on the immigration status of their parents, even their claim to basic U.S. “birthright citizenship” may be in question due to modern day misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment due to progressives and others with a political agenda in both major political parties purposely misinterpreting the decision in the holding in the Wong Kim Ark (WKA) case of 1898.
In that WKA 1898 case, his parents were per the factual evidence in that case clearly long-term domiciled and permanent residents in the USA for many years and were not just sojourning in the USA on a temporary VISA of some sort. His parents were legally, permanently domiciled in the USA. Thus, for that WKA 1898 decision to apply to these two prospects for a solid claim to birthright citizenship per the WKA (1898) case decision, more information is needed on the exact immigration status of Nikki Haley’s parents when Nikki Haley was born in the USA, as well as for Vivek Ramaswamy who may declare at some point. Were their parents legally domiciled permanent residents of the USA, i.e., “Green Card” holders, when their child was born in the USA?
The current very liberal and wrong interpretation of the WKA (1898) decision, strongly calls for that WKA (1898) decision to be revisited by the U.S. Supreme Court, or action to be taken by Congress, if for no other reason than to clarify the issue of basic “birthright citizenship” claims given how it now being clearly misunderstood and abused. The view that basic “birthright citizenship” is obtained merely by being born in the USA needs to be addressed in order to eliminate tourist citizenship gambits and illegal aliens children getting U.S. citizenship simply by being born across the border in the USA. That thinking is clearly wrong and not what WKA (1898) decided in its interpretation of the 14th Amendment.
It should also be noted that under the 12th Amendment to our Constitution neither of these new candidates is eligible to serve as VP. Under the 12th Amendment the VP has to meet the same “natural born Citizen” and other requirements as is required for the President and Commander-in-Chief.
With the information publicly available, and they should provide more transparency of the immigration status of their parents when they were born, they both appear to have been born at best with dual-citizenship and allegiance requirements to two countries, India via their parents is clearly the case and dubiously via their birthright citizen claim (at best) to the USA. They definitely were not born with unity of citizenship and sole allegiance to the United States at birth, and thus are NOT a “natural born Citizen” of the USA.
A “natural born Citizen” per principles ofNatural Law is one born in the country to parents who were both citizens of that country when their child was born and thus has unity of citizenship and sole allegiance at birth. Read why here.
And do note that the current de-facto VP Kamala Harris in not a natural born Citizen and nor was the de-facto president Barack Obama. Both were thus not constitutionally eligible and are and were usurpers. They were allowed to gain their de-facto offices with the help of the three enablers — the enabling main stream media, a cowardly U.S. Supreme Court, and collusion of the establishment wings of both major political parties in Congress — they got away with it. And the country has been suffering for it ever since.
9. Read the dozen of legal essays and court briefs written by constitutional and citizenship expert Attorney Mario Apuzzo on being a “natural born Citizen of the United States” and the pretenders and usurpers in three major political parties (Democrat, Republican, and Socialist parties) – who invalidly claimed such birth status – at his legal blog: http://puzo1.blogspot.com
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