“ONE HUNDRED PERCENT AMERICAN”
by Robert C. Laity, © Copyright 2017, All rights reserved, ISBN #978-0-692-98843-5
(Nov. 19, 2017) — [Editor’s Note: The following is the first five pages, plus a small portion of page 6, of a book registered with the U.S. Copyright Office by citizen researcher and disabled U.S. Navy veteran Robert C. Laity. He has been kind enough to share the book with The Post & Email prior to publication.
The book is 41 pages and produced in easy-to-read large print. For those wishing to purchase the book at this time, please send an email to robertlaity@roadrunner.com.]
Pursuant to Article II, Sec. 1, clause 5 and the 12th Amendment of the United States Constitution, only a Natural Born U.S. Citizen can be President. Being a “natural born citizen” is the highest level of citizenship which exists. The legally established definition of what a Natural Born Citizen is will be discussed in this book. This eligibility requirement applies to only two positions in the entire federal government., that of President and Vice-President of the United States of America.
Why would the Founders insist that the Presidency devolve only upon a person who is a one hundred percent American?
It’s so that there would be no possibility of any foreign influence being interjected into the workings of our sovereign government. It was John Jay who first very strongly suggested that our President should be a “Natural Born Citizen”.
Originally the text of the constitution required the same level of citizenship that a Senator or Representative had to possess. That of “Citizen”. That would have meant that a President need not have even been born here. Many “Citizens” are not born in the United States and have attained that citizenship by naturalization.
John Jay did not believe that it was appropriate to allow a naturalized Citizen to be President. He wanted a higher standard of citizenship involved. What circumstances would have to be met in order to assure that there would be no doubt that our President had only American ties and loyalties?
Jay came up with requiring a President and Vice-President to be a “Natural Born Citizen”. A Natural Born American would be a 100% American. He/she would be “Of the Blood” of Americans and “Of the soil” of America. He/she would have both Jus Soli and 100% Jus Sanquinis. No other type of Citizenship would suffice.
John Jay, one of the founders was also our nation’s first Chief Justice of the United States of America. The other signers of the U.S. Constitution agreed with John Jay and they incorporated the mandatory criteria that a President must be born in the United States to Parents who were both American citizens themselves. Indeed, this is what all the founders knew as the definition of what a natural born citizen is.
In the 18th Century, French was the language of Diplomacy. Many of the founders spoke French, especially Benjamin Franklin who served as an ambassador to France. There was a book, written in French and later translated into English, that Mr. Franklin brought back with him from Europe and that is still being used to this day. It is the same book that George Washington, our first U.S. President borrowed from the New York Society Library on October 5, 1789 and did not return. In the recent past, that Library was given another copy of the same edition of the book “Law of Nations”. The overdue fees of $300,000 were not requested by the Library but I would reasonably conjecture that a 1789 edition of the treatise would be worth as much or more. In French the “Law of Nations” is called “Les droits de Gens ou principe de le loi naturelle”. The Law of Nations is also incorporated into our constitution by reference at Article 1, Clause 8. It was translated from Latin into French by Emerlich Vattel. It was not originally written by him and has roots in Roman Law.
In the 18th century the book was ubiquitously used by both U.S. and British courts. It was then widely known and understood that a natural born citizen is one born in a country to parents who were both citizens of said country. In the original French the definition of a “Natural Born Citizen” is written “Les naturelles, ou indigenes, sont ceux qui sont, nes dans le pays de Parents Citoyens”. The English translation is “The Natural born are those born in a country to parents who are both citizens”.
Several United States Supreme Court opinions have affirmed and reaffirmed this definition of what a “Natural Born Citizen” is. In one case, Minor v Happersett, 88US, 162 ,(1875) the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously opined that a “Natural Born Citizen” is “One born in the United States to Parents who are [both] U.S. Citizens themselves”. This opinion was reaffirmed in subsequent U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the Venus, Shanks v Dupont and Wong Kim Ark. The prior cases were left undisturbed in Laity v NY, 13-875, USSCt.,cert.denied (2014).
It follows that anyone who was not born in the United States to Parents who were both U.S. Citizens themselves is not eligible to be President of the United States or for that matter, Vice-President of the United States.
In 1787 there were no “Natural Born” Citizens in the United States that met all the Article II, Sec. 1 Clause 5 criteria to be President or Vice-President. The founders understood this. They acted to grandfather in those persons who have stood for the cause of the American Revolution and Independence from England. Our first “Natural Born” Citizen President, who met all of the Article II criteria, was Martin Van Buren, born in 1782 in the United States to Parents who were both U.S.
Citizens themselves. Every other President since Van Buren, has been born in the United States to Parents who were both U.S. Citizens themselves except two persons, who attained to the Presidency & who did not meet the Constitutional criteria. Barack Obama and Chester Arthur managed fraudulently to attain to the office of the Presidency and to usurp the office. They both were therefore, not bona-fide Presidents.
The usurpation of our highest office did not happen just once in our history, with Chester A. Arthur in 1881. It was allowed by nonfeasant powers that be to happen again with Barack H. Obama, one hundred and twenty seven years later in 2008 and once again in 2012. The first usurper Chester A. Arthur was born in the United States on October 5th,1829. His Father William Arthur, was born in Dreen, Ireland and was a British Subject. The fact that William Arthur did not naturalize as a U.S. Citizen until a full (14) years after Chester’s birth in Vermont, disqualified Chester A. Arthur from being President of the United States. Chester was (14) years old already when William finally naturalized as a U.S. Citizen. Both Chester Arthur and Barack Obama unconstitutionally, illegally and illicitly exercised the authority of the Presidency. Authority that legally they did not have nor were ever entitled to.
Neither of the two was ever the bona-fide President of the United States.
Chester Arthur, “President #21” and Barack Obama “President #43” were counterfeit Presidents. They were never legally elected because they did not meet constitutional muster. That they do not meet the criteria set forth by law means that they were not bona-fide Presidents. Not being a Natural Born Citizen is a deficiency in meeting constitutional criteria, the same as if a President weren’t thirty five years old or fourteen years a resident of the U.S. Obama and Arthur failed to meet all (3) mandatory criteria in Article II, Sec. 1, Clause 5 to qualify as eligible to be President.
Chester Arthur destroyed the proof that would warrant his vacating of the Office of the Presidency. Regardless, It was discovered after his death when it surfaced that he was not a “Natural Born” Citizen of the U.S. It was too late to do anything to stop Chester Arthur. However, it was not and is not too late to bring Barack H. Obama to justice. Obama is not a “Natural Born” U.S. Citizen. He said so himself on several occasions alluding to his “Kenyan and Indonesian roots”.
Obama claims that his Father was Barack Obama, Sr. and his Mother was Stanley Dunham. There is no acceptable or confirmable proof that these persons were Barack Obama, Jr’s actual parents. The Birth Certificate that Obama, Jr. proffered has been found by several independent and competent forensic document experts to be a forgery. This has been confirmed by separate forensic studies.
Is he really an imposter when it is so obvious our government knows who, and what, he is? After all, they all supported him without question.
Yes. He is really an imposter. Those who “supported him without question” are accomplices to Obama’s treason and espionage against the United States.
Yes! He REALLY is an Imposter. Those who supported his fraud, which occurred in wartime, are ALL complicit with Obama’s TREASON and Espionage against the United States and all are subject to the death penalty if ever convicted (including Joseph Biden and Nancy Pelosi, et al).
Imposters in the Oval Office- this book held my attention from beginning to end. The struggles for justice has been compromised with blackmail, party lines, vs what is the TRUTH. I recommend this book to everyone who is learning or frustrated about our government. This should be talk to every high school student. If we do not learn from the past, we will not be able to prevent this from happening again.
Congress is nothing but con artists. We need to clean this up. I would love to assist.
The government has been trying to put the USA into a ‘One World Government’ since WWI. After WWI the League of Nations was formed thinking all nations should be ‘friends’ and not go to war against each other again. The Senate “threw it out the door” in 2 years and ‘the race was on’. FDR started the United Nations toward the end of WWII but didn’t [finish] the job so HST finished it for him and they’re still trying to “give birth” to a one world government. If they ever get that accomplished it’s goodbye USA. Our constitution will become null and void.
It is the NWO that is null and void. “ANY law that is repugnant to the U.S. Constitution is null”- Marbury v. Madison, USSCt, (1803). A treaty which would abrogate our sovereignty as a Republic is, on its face, “repugnant to the U.S. Constitution”.
Thank you for your very kind words.
Constitutionally barred and ineligible candidate Kamala Harris joins the usurper club today after fraudulently accepting “nomination” for VP. https://www.thepostemail.com/2020/08/14/citizen-seeks-court-order-to-kamala-harris-to-prove-constitutional-eligibility
When honoring past Presidents today, Presidents Day, remember NOT to honor Obama or Arthur. They were BOTH usurpers and frauds.
I believe the vast difference was Arthur ‘worked’ for the USA, Obama [worked] as hard as he could against the USA.
Notwithstanding, both Arthur and Obama were never bona-fide Presidents of the USA.
No one who usurps the Presidency by fraud “work[s] for the United States”. Arthur was never the bona-fide POTUS. Neither was Obama.
The treason that was done by the US Congress for eight long years by allowing the fraud and usurper barack husien obama to sit in the Oval Offie will be called just politics and not treason . It is amazing how politics and treason go together isn’t it .
MG, Thanks for your kind words. Chester Arthur usurped the Presidency, by fraud in 1881. It took over 125 years before Obama did it. Strangely, just since 2008, no less then EIGHT people have tried to do so., Cruz, Rubio, Jindal, Swarzenneger, Obama, McCain, Harris and Gabbard. Cruz even said “If Obama can do it, so can I”. Will “We the People” fall for this and allow this chicanery AGAIN!?
McCain was eligible. He was born in Panama because his father was stationed there serving in the US Navy. If you’ll look it up, the First Session of Congress changed the definition of natural-born citizen where a child is a natural-born citizen if both parents are citizens of the same nation regardless of where their child is born. Their child is a natural-born citizen of their parent’s home nation
Not correct. The Natural Born Citizen clause CANNOT be changed by legislation. It is longstanding established law that an NBC IS one born IN the United States to parents who are both US citizens themselves. See: The Venus, Minor v. Happersett, Wong Kim Ark, et al. McCain was NOT born IN the United States. You are referring to a since REPEALED section of the Nationality Act of 1790 in which persons born overseas to US parents would be “considered” natural born citizens. That provision was deemed unconstitutional and REPEALED in 1795.
All of the comments before mine reminds me of a biblical principle that the road to destruction is wide but the road to truth is narrow.
The resultant contrast between the two roads is that few tend to find the narrow road to truth.
Sir Robert Laity reminds me of that seeker of the truth.
Large crowds typically require width and length of space. They tend to not be in their comfort zone otherwise.
Sometimes our laws can be a haven of good, sometimes a harbinger of results that are bad.
Mr. Laity impresses me as one who wants and is entitled to the truth as a U.S. citizen. He is applauded for his courage, leadership, and especially tenacity in pursuing the path of veritas in this matter.
Gary, Do you want another ZINGER? Hawaii was unconstitutionally annexed by the U.S. government and is NOT legally a State. Both President Grover Cleveland and William Clinton acknowledged this historical fact. Clinton actually APOLOGIZED for the U.S. invasion and illegal annexation of the Sovereign Kingdom of Hawaii. There is still an embassy of the Kingdom of Hawaii to this day in Germantown, New York. See: “The Apology Resolution” (Public Law-103-150 [107 Stat. 1510].
Robert Laity, that’s ASSUMING Obama was born in Hawaii. I believe it was Mike Zullo who has stated previously that there is no verifiable evidence that Obama was even in the state of Hawaii before the age of five. I still lean toward a Kenyan birth but the fact of the matter is I and most others just don’t know!
Regardless of where he was born, Obama is a dual-citizen, not a natural born citizen of either parent’s home nation.
Same with Kamala Harris, her parents were not citizens of the USA. She is a ‘native’ citizen but certainly not a natural born citizen… yet Congress said ‘hey, that’s OK, Biden wants her as his running mate stealing the Oval Office. I’d say she’s a good mate for that.
His BC is a forgery. Who can say with accuracy WHERE he was born? Perhaps even Obama does not “know” where he was actually born. It was NOT Hawaii. Not one hospital in Hawaii has taken credit for being the birthplace of Barack Obama. Not one Midwife or EMT or Taxicab driver has come forward either.
My book “Imposters in the Oval Office” is now on sale online and at bookstores near you.
The silver lining regarding that most recent denial is that the four SCOTUS precedents, affirming and re-affirming that a “Natural Born Citizen” is one born in the United States to parents who are both US Citizens themselves, remain undisturbed by SCOTUS and remain “good law” as we say in the legal profession. See: Minor v Happersett, the Venus, Kim Wong Ark and Shanks v Dupont. This is not over.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/043018zor_6kh7.pdf
Page 8 of 9 first one listed under REHEARINGS DENIED
The denial of Laity’s petition for rehearing is listed on the U.S. Supreme Court’s docket:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/17-1006.html
Mr. Laity’s petition for a rehearing of his Supreme Court denial was rejected on Monday, April 30.
Can you provide a link?
W. Kevin Vicklund, How things change from one hour to the next. At the time I wrote that the Court had not yet dismissed my case, I was unaware that they would be doing so. In any event, I intend to file a Writ of Certiorari to the NY State Court of Appeals in the U.S. Supreme Court. If the Judges on the NY State Court of Appeals truly believe that the misrepresentation by the State of NY regarding the Natural Born Citizen criteria is not a “substantial constitutional question” then the U.S. has degenerated into anarchy. Compound that by the fact that Clarence Thomas admitted that SCOTUS is intentionally violating the oaths they all took when they entered onto the court by saying that “WE are evading the issue” and it becomes evident that the US has become a banana republic.
On Tuesday, November 21, 2017 at 4:45 AM, Robert Laity wrote, in part:
“As for my case at the NY State Court of Appeals against Cruz, Rubio, Jindal and the State of NY, NO. The Court has not dismissed the case. In fact they denied motion by the State to do so. The case is still pending.”
Later that day, the NY State Court of Appeals released the following order in Mr. Laity’s case:
“On the Court’s own motion, appeal dismissed, without costs, upon the ground that no substantial constitutional question is directly involved.
Motion for leave to appeal denied.”
I appear to have missed the P&E story covering this development and Mr. Laity’s response.
TF Bow, Technically Hawaii has never been a legally annexed State nor has it ever been an incorporated territory of the United States. In November, 1993 Bill Clinton, as POTUS, signed PL-103-150 apologizing to the Nation of Hawaii for the illegal annexation of Hawaii BY the United States of America. Under provision of the British Nationality Act of 1948, by virtue of the fact that Barack Obama,Sr. was a British subject when Jr. was born in Hawaii, Junior was born a British Subject.
Bellison, Obama,McCain,Rubio,Jindal,Swarzenegger and Cruz are NOT Natural Born Citizens.
TF Bow, I did not say that I was an Attorney. I said that I have a Law degree. Which I do. The State of California Bar Association accepts several in State Online Law Courses. There are other States such as Wisconsin that accepts California Law Courses. Brick and Mortar schools accredited by the ABA are NOT the sole avenue for obtaining a Law degree or education. There are several States that allow single Attorneys to apprentice law students. Given that I have practiced law in the Federal Sector for (40) years, where one does not have to be an Attorney to represent federal employees before Administrative Boards and Judges, I am like Lincoln. Self taught through experience AND whether accredited by the ABA or not, alternatively acceptable legal training of a non-traditional nature. I have gone up against Solicitor General of the US, Kenneth Starr in a case that I took to SCOTUS in the past. Have you?
“I could not find one mention of human law mentioned it the above definition of “natural”.”
No mention of the parents either.
FWIW, dictionaries from the late 18th and early 19th centuries:
DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: IN WHICH The WORDS are deduced from their ORIGINALS, Explained in their DIFFERENT MEANINGS, AND Authorized by the NAMES of the WRITERS in whose Works they are found.
Samuel Johnson, 1768
NATIVE a. [nativus, Latin; nation, Fr] 1. Produced by nature; not artificial. Davies. 2. Natural ; such as is according to nature. Swift. 3. Conferred by birth. Denham. 4. Pertaining to the time or place of birth. Shak. 5. Original. Milton.
NATIVE.s 1.One born in any place; original inhabitant Bacon. 2. Offspring.
NA’TURAL. a. [naturel. Fr.] 1. Produced or effected by nature. Wìlkins, 2. Illegitimate. Temple. 3. Bestowed by nature. Swift. 4. Not forced ; not farfetched; dictated by nature. Wetton. 5. Tender; affectionate by nature Shakesp. 6. Unaffected; according to birth and locality. Addison. 7. Opposed to violent: as, a natural death
NA’TURAL. f. |from nature.] 1. An idiot; a fool. Shakesp. Licke. 2. Native; original inhabitant; Raleigh. 3. Gift of nature; nature; quality. Wotten.
Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language, in miniature [ed. by Joseph Hamilton] …
By Samuel Johnson 1798
Native s, one born in any country, offspring.
Native adj, natural, not artificial, original
Natural, adj, produced by nature; tender, easy.
Natural n, a fool, an idiot; native quality.
A dictionary of the English language: compiled for the use of common schools …
By Noah Webster 1817
Native, a. natural, born with one, pertaining to birth
Native, n. one born, in any place
Nat’ural, a. produced by nature, baseborn Nat’ural, re. an idiot, fool, native quality.
Webster’s Dictionary 1828
NATIVE, a.
1. Produced by nature; original; born with the being; natural; not acquired; as native genius; native affections; a native talent or disposition; native cheerfulness; native simplicity.
2. Produced by nature; not factitious or artificial; as native ore; native color.
3. Conferred by birth; as native rights and privileges.
4. Pertaining to the place of birth; as native soil; native country; native graves.
5. Original; that of which any thing is made; as mans native dust.
6. Born with; congenial.
NATIVE, n.
1. One born in any place is said to be a native of that place, whether country, city or town.
2. Offspring.
NATURAL, a. [to be born or produced]
1. Pertaining to nature; produced or effected by nature, or by the laws of growth, formation or motion impressed on bodies or beings by divine power. Thus we speak of the natural growth of animals or plants; the natural motion of a gravitating body; natural strength or disposition; the natural heat of the body; natural color; natural beauty. In this sense, natural is opposed to artificial or acquired.
2. According to the stated course of things. Poverty and shame are the natural consequences of certain vices.
3. Not forced; not far fetched; such as is dictated by nature. The gestures of the orator are natural.
4. According to the life; as a natural representation of the face.
5. Consonant to nature.
Fire and warmth go together, and so seem to carry with them as natural an evidence as self-evident truths themselves.
6. Derived from nature, as opposed to habitual. The love of pleasure is natural ; the love of study is usually habitual or acquired.
7. Discoverable by reason; not revealed; as natural religion.
8. Produced or coming in the ordinary course of things, or the progress or animals and vegetables; as a natural death; opposed to violent or premature.
9. Tender; affectionate by nature.
10. Unaffected; unassumed; according to truth and reality.
What can be more natural than the circumstances of the behavior of those women who had lost heir husbands on this fatal day?
11. Illegitimate; born out of wedlock; as a natural son.
12. Native; vernacular; as ones natural language.
13. Derived from the study of the works or nature; as natural knowledge.
14. A natural note, in music, is that which is according to the usual order of the scale; opposed to flat and sharp notes, which are called artificial.
Natural history, in its most extensive sense, is the description of whatever is created, or of the whole universe, including the heavens and the earth, and all the productions of the earth. But more generally, natural history is limited to a description of the earth and its productions, including zoology, botany, geology, mineralogy, meteorology, & c.
A Dictionary of the English Language
By Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson 1828
NATIVE, (na’-tiv) a. Produced by nature ; not artificial; natural; such as is according to nature; original; conferred by birth ; pertaining to the time or place of birth ; that which gave being ; born with.
NATIVE, (na’-tiv) n. i. One born in any place; original inhabitant; offspring.
NATURAL, (nat’-u-ral) a. Produced or effected by nature; illegitimate, not legal ; bestowed by nature ; not acquired ; not forced ; not farfetched ; dictated by nature ; following the stated course of things ; consonant to natural notions ; tender; affectionate by nature ; unaffected ; according to truth and reality : opposed to violent, as, a natural death.
Three-Pound Sledge is, of course, free to believe anything, but the U.S. Supreme Court has already explained that terms in the U.S. Constitution are to be interpreted using British Common Law. And, by doing so, every judge who has considered the eligibility issue has ruled that birth in the United States is sufficient to confer natural-born citizenship.
(And, as an aside, the United States does not exist in nature; it too requires human law to define its boundaries.)
Three-Pound Sledge may be confused as to where Obama was born, but the State of Hawaii has repeatedly and expressly said he was born there.
All individuals that derive their citizenship through Congress’ Naturalization Acts, 1795 and subsequent or Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, are statutory U.S. citizens. (3-1/4 Lb amended statement)
From Mark Bellilaugh: “Obama, Rubin, Jindal and Haley did not derive their citizenship from Congressional acts.”
Nor have the above individuals (add Cruz, too) derived natural born Citizenship from any source. Rubio, Jindal, and Haley have twisted and contorted the 14th Amendment as illegitimate anchor babies – just plain-vanilla U.S. citizens.
To wit: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.”
I found no mention of “natural born Citizen” in the 14th Amendment.
Cruz is just an undocumented alien with no verifiable U.S. ‘citizenship’ documentation due to his birth in Canada. i.e., no paper trail.
Obama is another undocumented alien with zero verifiable background documentation. i.e., no paper trail. No one knows where he was born.
Dictionary assistance:
natural
adjective
1 a natural occurrence: normal, ordinary, everyday, usual, regular, common, commonplace, typical, routine, standard, established, customary, accustomed, habitual. ANTONYMS abnormal, exceptional.
2 natural produce: unprocessed, organic, pure, wholesome, unrefined, pesticide-free, additive-free. ANTONYMS artificial, refined.
3 Alex is a natural leader: born, naturally gifted, untaught.
4 his natural instincts: innate, inborn, inherent, native, instinctive, intuitive; hereditary, inherited, inbred, congenital, connate. ANTONYMS acquired.
5 she seemed very natural: unaffected, spontaneous, uninhibited, relaxed, unselfconscious, genuine, open, artless, guileless, ingenuous, unpretentious, without airs. ANTONYMS self-conscious, false, affected.
6 it was quite natural to think that: reasonable, logical, understandable, (only) to be expected, predictable. ANTONYMS unreasonable.
I could not find one mention of human law mentioned it the above definition of “natural”.
“All individuals that derive their citizenship through Congress’ Naturalization Acts, 1795 and subsequent, are statutory U.S. citizens.”
Obama, Rubin, Jindal and Haley did not derive their citizenship from Congressional acts.
Three-Pound Sledge is, of course, free to believe anything, but every judge who has considered the eligibility issue ruled that birth in the United States is sufficient confer natural-born citizenship. In the United States, judges explain and interpret what the U.S. Constitution means, which is why looking to a statute for a definition would be a bizarre wild-goose chase. No law or senate resolution has made anyone a natural-born citizen; only the U.S. Constitution can do that.
And Three-Pound Sledge is free to believe that Obama could and will be tried for treason, but there is no indication that will ever happen.
Robert Laity is, of course, free to believe whatever he desires, but it is uncontroverted that every judge who has considered the eligibility issue has ruled that birth in the United States is sufficient to confer natural-born citizenship. Laity is free to believe whatever he desires about the correctness of those rulings, but his beliefs are not the law, whereas the judges’ rulings are the law. There is a world of difference between what Laity believes the law should be and what the law actually is.
The American Justice Foundation, even if run by an attorney, is not accredited by the Florida Bar, the ABA, or any other institution — it is, in fact unaccredited. It (really, the one person running it) can call the “degrees” anything, impose whatever “requirements,” etc., because they have no real-world application; the diplomas aren’t worth the paper they are printed on. An AJF “degree” confers literally no benefit; for example, most states (including Florida, New York, and Illinois) require studying at an ABA school to become a lawyer.
And hopefully Laity isn’t comparing himself to Lincoln.