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Attorney, Leo C. Donofrio, says the following
discussion assumes Obama was born in Hawaii and is a United States
citizen.
The purpose of this article is to highlight judicial
and historical evidence suggesting that a "natural born citizen" must be
born in the United States to parents who are citizens. By that
definition, Obama is not eligible to be president. Therefore, his
presidency and official administrative acts remain subject to being
rendered void by the Supreme Court.
At the official Obama
campaign website -- FightTheSmears.com -- just below the Certification
of Live Birth (COLB) -- the following admission was also published:
In other words, at the time of his birth, Barack Obama Jr. was both a
U.S. citizen (by virtue of being born in Hawaii) and a citizen of the
United Kingdom and Colonies (or the UKC) by virtue of being born to a
father who was a citizen of the UKC.
The constitutional question
presented is whether a person born with citizenship in and allegiance to
a foreign nation can be considered a "natural born" citizen of the
United States as required by Article II, Section 1.
The U.S.
State Department's Foreign Affairs Manual discusses problems associated
with dual citizenship:
7 FAM 081: U.S. Policy on Dual Nationality:
(e) While recognizing the existence of dual nationality,
the U.S. Government does not encourage it as a matter of policy
because of the problems it may cause. Dual nationality may hamper
efforts by the U.S. Government to provide diplomatic and consular
protection to individuals overseas. When a U.S. citizen is in the
other country of their dual nationality, that country has a
predominant claim on the person.
This helps explain why the
definition of "natural
born" citizen as one born in the nation to parents who are citizens
makes perfect sense in that such a person will not be infected by
dual-allegiance problems. If the parents are citizens, neither
will confer allegiance to a foreign nation. Additionally, if one
is born on soil foreign to the parents, that nation is likely to
recognize the person as a citizen. Owing allegiance to more than
one nation is an unnatural circumstance of citizenship.
While
the Constitution requires representatives, senators and presidents to be
citizens, Article II, Section 1, additionally requires that the
president's citizenship be "natural born." A natural born citizen
is not a higher level of citizen. "Natural born" simply describes
a circumstance of citizenship.
Continue reading
here . . .
This stuff
has been archived in The Obama
File for two years, but it is worth revisiting.
This item describes
the law and the facts that apply to Obama's eligibility.
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