Posted by
Mike on Sunday, July 03, 2011 9:07:27 PM
http://www.westernperspective.blogspot.com/
The more one delves into the question, the clearer it becomes that
what the Founding Fathers actually intended in Article II, Section 1 of
the Constitution is that, to be eligible to hold the office of
President, a person need only have been a citizen when the Constitution
was first adopted in 1787, or have been born within one of the several
sovereign states forming the Union, except children born to diplomats or
ambassadors of a foreign state, or to enemy aliens in hostile
occupation of US territory. This interpretation follows the English
common law of
jus solis as pointed out by former Attorney General Edwin Meese. [THE HERITAGE GUIDE TO THE CONSTITUTION (2005)]
This right of natural born citizenship would subsequently be extended by
statute to birth within the District of Columbia created in 1791 from
land belonging to Maryland and Virgina, and to certain territories of
the United States.
This interpretation would make Barack Obama a natural born citizen
eligible to serve unless, as some contend, he was born outside the US.
Therefore, in order to discredit Obama, it is necessary to prove that he
was born in another country such as Kenya.