ELIGIBILITY
These Presidential Candidates Fail To Meet The Natural Born Citizen
Requirement In Article II Section 1 Clause 5 Of The U.S. Constitution
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Natural Born Citizen Legal Briefs (amicus curiae)
What is a natural-born Citizen?
There are three requirements the Framers codified within the Constitution to prevent multiple allegiances, divided loyalties and foreign influence in the Office of the U.S. Presidency, since the nation’s chief executive also serves as Commander-in-Chief of its Armed Forces.
U.S. Constitution: Article II Section 1 Clause 5 – Requirements for U.S. President
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 natural-born Citizen is a singularly unique class of citizen based on the principles of natural law to ensure sole-allegiance to the Republic. “The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens.”
This is evidenced by the differing eligibility requirements for Representative and Senator in Article I, Section II and III respectively; which are only for that of Citizen.
U.S. Constitution: Article I Section 2 Clause 2 – Requirements for U.S. Representative
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty-five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
U.S. Constitution: Article I Section 3 Clause 3 – Requirements for U.S. Senator
No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.
Legally within the context of Presidential eligibility in the Constitution, natural-born Citizen and Citizen are not synonymous nor interchangeable; and nothing short of an amendment to the Constitution duly ratified by three-fourths of the State’s legislatures can rescind this exclusive safeguard protecting the Republic from tyranny and threats to our national security.
Enemies to the rule of law have conflated an Article I “Citizen” as defined by the 14th Amendment which allows for multiple allegiances, with an Article II “natural-born Citizen” in recent elections; in order to usurp the Constitution in error. But the truth remains, and U.S. Rep. John Armor Bingham, the principal Framer of the Fourteenth Amendment, provides the guidance to follow by defining a natural-born Citizen as having sole-allegiance at birth.
U.S. House, April 11, 1862
i) “All from other lands, who, by the terms of your laws and a compliance with their provisions become naturalized, are adopted citizens of the United States; all other persons born within the Republic, of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty, are natural born Citizens"
Congressional Globe, House of Representatives, 37th, 2nd Session, p.1639 (1862)
And just three months before the Fourteenth Amendment’s passage in the Senate, Bingham used Constitutional construction to cement into the canon of American legislative proceedings the circumstances at birth required to be a natural born Citizen: allegiance not owing to any foreign sovereignty inherited through both parents at the moment of first breath within the jurisdiction of the United States, such that this exclusive class of Citizen reserved for the President and Commander-in-Chief became subject to the force of law when it was enacted in the U.S. Constitution Article II, § 1, cl. 5:
U.S. House, March 9th, 1866
ii) “I find no fault with the introductory clause, which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born Citizen”
Congressional Globe, House of Representatives, 39th Congress, 1st Session, p.1291 (1866)
Then Bingham, an ardent supporter of the abolition of slaves and equal rights for all, sets the capstone on the debate:
U.S. House, April 25, 1872
iii) “That Dr. Houard is a natural-born citizen of the United States there is not room for the shadow of a doubt. He was born of naturalized parents within the jurisdiction of the United States, and by the express words of the Constitution, as amended to-day, he is declared to all the world to be a citizen of the United States by birth.”
Congressional Globe, House of Representatives, 42nd Congress, 2nd Session, p.2791 (1872)
Nikki Haley
Neither of Nikki Haley's parents were ever naturalized and never became a U.S. Citizen. Therefore, because both of her parents were not U.S. Citizens at the time of her birth, Nikki Haley is not a Constitutional Article II natural born citizen and ineligible for President of the United States.
Kamala Harris
Neither of Kamala Harris' parents were U.S. Citizens at the time of her birth. Because both parents are required to be citizens at birth to be a Constitutional Article II natural born citizen, Kamala Harris is ineligible for President and Vice-President of the United States.
Tulsi Gabbard
American Samoa is not an "incorporated" territory in the United States. Therefore, the decision by the courts in the Insular Cases disqualifies Tulsi Gabbard since she was not born "in the United States" which is one of the three requirements for Presidential eligibility in Article II of the U.S. Constitution.
Ted Cruz
Ted was born in a foreign nation, Canada, out of the territory and jurisdiction of the United States, to an alien father and a U.S. citizen mother. Cruz was born with dual citizenship of the United States and Canada and is not a Constitutional Article II natural born citizen. The Dallas Morning News reported on August 19, 2013: “Sen. Ted Cruz acknowledged late Monday that he probably has been a lifelong Canadian, and vowed to renounce that citizenship now that he realizes he’s had it.”
Barack Obama
Barack Obama Sr. in his immigration file from INS is recognized as a non-citizen and alien
with dual nationalities, Kenyan and British. Barack Obama's father was an alien that never naturalized and never became a U.S. Citizen. Because both of his parents were not U.S. Citizens at the time of his birth, Barack Hussein Obama II is not a Constitutional Article II natural born citizen and ineligible for President of the United States.
FACT: The U.S. Supreme Court never decided Barack Obama was a Constitutional Article II natural-born citizen eligible for the Office of the President of the United States.
Róger Calero
Róger Calero was born in a foreign nation, Nicaragua. Therefore, according to Article II Section 1 Clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution, he is not a natural born citizen and disqualified from the Office of the President of the United States.
Marco Rubio
Neither of Marco Rubio's parents were U.S. citizens at the time of his birth. Therefore, he is not a Constitutional Article II natural born citizen and ineligible for President of the United States.
Bobby Jindal
Neither of Bobby Jindals parents were U.S. citizens at the time of his birth. Therefore, he is not a Constitutional Article II natural born citizen and ineligible for President of the United States.
Lowell Weicker, Jr.
Lowell Weicker, Jr. was born to U.S. citizen parents in a foreign nation, France, out of the territory and jurisdiction of the United States. Therefore, according to Article II Section 1 Clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution, he is not a natural born citizen and disqualified from the Office of the President of the United States.
Charles Evans Hughes
Neither of Charles Evans Hughes' parents were U.S. citizens at the time of his birth. Therefore, he is not a Constitutional Article II natural born citizen and ineligible for President of the United States.
Chester Arthur
Neither of Chester Arthur's parents were U.S. citizens at the time of his birth. Therefore, he is not a Constitutional Article II natural born citizen and ineligible for President of the United States.
FACT: Did you know that Chester Arthur's mother lost her U.S. Citizenship and became an alien when she married?
When Malvina Stone married William Arthur, her citizenship merged with her husband's resulting in Chester Arthur being born to an alien mother and father. Chester Arthur repeatedly gave false information about his family's history and shortly before his death he ordered most of his letters, journals, and private papers to be destroyed.
As potential Presidential candidates come forward having recognized allegiances to another sovereign foreign nation inherited from either parent, they should not be allowed to claim eligibility as a natural-born Citizen.
Because the nomination process for President and Vice-President is an honor system, malevolent forces have betrayed the Republic and dishonored that process. Article II Guardians welcomes your support as we advocate for a legally binding vetting apparatus at both the state and federal level.