by Sharon Rondeau
(Jun. 1, 2023) — A Twitter user brings attention to the U.S. Constitution’s “eligibility requirements” for the president and vice president by describing them as “ignored.”
“Patriotess” features the hashtag “naturalborncitizen” in her account header and asks, “WHY is Constitution Eligibility Requirements for POTUS/VP IGNORED?”
The reference is to Article II, Section 1, clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution, which states:
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.
As readers of this publication are aware, the term “natural born Citizen” has been the subject of ongoing debate, particularly as it relates to recent presidential candidates and such office-holders as Barack Hussein Obama and Kamala D. Harris.
The Supreme Court has “evaded” cases challenging the eligibility of 2008 presidential candidates Obama and the late Sen. John McCain.
Obama purports to have been born in Honolulu, HI to a U.S.-citizen mother and foreign-citizen father. In contrast, McCain was born in Colon, Panama to two U.S.-citizen parents, one of whom was serving as an admiral in the U.S. Navy.
Many legal scholars believe the Founders intended the term “natural born Citizen” to apply to one born in the United States to parents who were citizens at the time of the birth, thereby precluding foreign influence. Others disagree, claiming the Founders believed that a simple birth in the U.S., regardless of parents’ status, was sufficient to qualify.
Most prominent in the Twitter user’s header is a reference to the 18th-century treatise, “The Law of Nations” by Swiss philosopher and jurist, Emmerich de Vattel, who the U.S. Supreme Court has acknowledged as “[t]he international jurist most widely cited in the first 50 years after the Revolution.”
“This 1758 work by Swiss legal philosopher Emmerich de Vattel is of special importance to scholars of constitutional history and law, for it was read by many of the Founders of the United States of America, and informed their understanding of the principles of law which became established in the Constitution of 1787,” editor J. Chitty wrote in the preface to the 1999 “Digital Edition” of the treatise as reported by legal scholar Joseph DeMaio.
As Republican presidential primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was speaking at a “Twitter Space” event Thursday night, Patriotess featured a meme in which Ramaswamy says, “I am not a natural born citizen” and “I am Constitutionally ineligible to be President. Yes that’s according to the Supreme Court” [sic].
Those statements are portrayed as having responded to Patriotess’s question, “What’s ur citizenship status?”
Ramaswamy was born in Ohio to immigrant parents from India whose citizenship status has not been disclosed despite numerous requests from members of the public in order to determine his eligibility for the presidency.
In response to a commenter claiming of Patriotess, “you do not know what you are talking about,” she wrote, “Others before us to include you DID #FoundingFathers #naturalborncitizen http://usnaturalborncitizen.com/ramsey.html
The link leads to an essay at the website, “usnaturalborncitizen.com” titled, “A DISSERTATION on the MANNER OF ACQUIRING The Character & Privileges of a CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES:” which is an unattributed reproduction of the late Mario Apuzzo’s April 2, 2010 article, “Founder and Historian David Ramsay Defines a Natural Born Citizen in 1789.”
The same day, The Post & Email reproduced the article with Apuzzo’s permission.
After more than a decade of advocating for the “Vattel” interpretation of “natural born Citizen,” including challenging Obama’s eligibility to the Supreme Court, Apuzzo, who did not personally meet that definition, died in October 2021 at the age of 65.
Among her featured graphics is one taken from a 2019 article written by DeMaio questioning former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s presidential eligibility in light of her birth in American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United States.
Just after this article went to press, The Post & Email noticed a tweet from Patriotess asking us, “WHY aren’t you aggressively supporting #birthers #naturalborncitizen” [sic], to which we responded with a link to the story.
“Twitter asks why presidential eligibility requirements are ignored.” Elementary- because U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts swore into our highest office (two or three times!) an INELIGIBLE COMMUNIST-MENTORED AND CIA-GROOMED MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, AND BY DOING SO, ESTABLISHED AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL PRECEDENT AND STARTED THE DOWNFALL OF AMERICA. Practically everyone in government, the media, and our society at large was told to “SHUT UP” and NEVER TALK ABOUT WHAT HAD BEEN DONE. Made everyone complicit, didn’t it! NEW WORLD ORDER HERE WE COME (we won’t have to worry anymore about becoming or remaining a third-world country, will we!). By the way, DID YOU VOTE FOR THIS EVIL ACT OF TREASON? How do you like it now? Methinks you haven’t seen nothin’ yet! AMEN, and I do mean AMEN!
A natural born citizen doesn’t require a law to be a citizen. Give that some thought.
That is absolutely right. Congress cannot and will continue to not cite the phrase “natural born Citizen” in any of its citizen statutes, because they know that they cannot create nor deem anyone a natural born Citizen, an act that only comes naturally, not through positive law.
Congress’ last attempt to use the phrase “natural born Citizen” was found in the Naturalization Act of 1790 that was eventually and fully rescinded by the Naturalization Act of 1795. By passing the Naturalization Act of 1795, I believe that they corrected the error of their entry of that phrase in the previous Naturalization Act.
I am enormously pleased that the meme that I created has made it to a national publication. I am elated and honored.
By now everyone has heard how to eat an Elephant, but nobody wants to take the first bite. Tom Arnold’s comment is spot on.
It’s very clear that dual citizens aren’t Natural Born Citizens, that was made very clear by John Jay’s letter to George Washington. Furthermore the US government has rules dual citizens must obey https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-legal-considerations/Advice-about-Possible-Loss-of-US-Nationality-Dual-Nationality/Dual-Nationality.html
Does anyone believe that the founders would have allowed someone to be POTUS who is required to owe allegiance to a foreign country and is subject to their jurisdiction? Hardly! But there’s RINOs in Congress and unless they’re voted out it’ll continue.
The natural born citizen requirement of the Constitution was and is ignored by both parties who were afraid of being called racist if they did or said anything which could stop Barack Hussein Obama from being sworn-in by John Roberts, (several times). The result of that was and is that America’s government and her military were given to her enemies. Those enemies believe they should “fundamentally change” America” and they have done that from the highest levels of America’s government, the President and commander-in-chief of her military. After Obama the gates were opened for others who are not natural born citizens and the intended protection from foreign influence was lost, meaning America itself is lost by ignoring the wisdom of the framers of the Constitution. Obama proved to be the perfect choice to make that happen because he is race, and after being sworn-in ineligibility protected by both parties who committed treason by doing nothing to stop America’s government and her military from being given to her enemies. All Republicans became RINOs because none of them tried to do or say anything to stop Obama…same as the Democrats.
All of this was and is easy to see and understand but apparently impossible to do anything about because those complicit in The Obama Fraud, both parties, will forever protect Obama to protect themselves. We are watching the sad ending to a once great nation……..and the “fundamental change” continues as does the endless media talk about everything but the root cause of the loss of our Nation………
Sharon, I’ve been reading your publications since we all were trying to expose fraud traitor obuma. Appreciate and respect your dedication to our country and honoring our Constitution. This Vivek guy is obuma in a Republican suit and his supporters worse than cruzbots. Constitution ignorance is rampant. Most folks just don’t care anymore about patriotism and country loyalty. Thank you. Sincerely, Lorie Herberg
Hello Patriotress:
I have contacted Vivek’s campaign several times using the contact method in his website asking him the direct question that needs to be openly addressed by him and answered and the need for him to be more transparent about this issue. I asked him — are your parents naturalized U.S. Citizens? And if so, were both of his parents naturalized Citizens of the United States when he was born? And if not by the time he was born, when did they naturalize? And if they never naturalized, what is the immigratioin status of his parent now? But I received no answers.
Based on that “no response” evasion tactic for that same kind of question posed to others in the past like Nikki Haley and Kamala Harris, I assume his parents were not naturalized citizens when Vivek was born.
I wrote this and sent it to about two dozen key Reps and Senators in both political parties suggestion that all presidential candidates should be required and fill out this form and file it for public viewing with the FEC along with the financial disclosure form they are now required to file with the FEC: https://cdrkerchner.wordpress.com/2023/05/07/transparency-requirements-for-candidates-for-president-and-vice-president-more-is-needed-in-our-modern-electoral-process-filing-the-oge-financial-disclosure-form-278e-is-mandatory-the-opm-na/
As to Obama, I assume you have also followed over the years the late Atty Mario Apuzzo’s blog (http://puzo1.blogspot.com) and my blog and my ProtectOurLiberty website: http://www.ProtectOurLiberty.org
I have been engaged in the battle to support and defend the U.S. Constitution and in particular the “natural born Citizen” term in Article II Section 1 Clause 5 of our U.S. Constitution for 15 years. And I recently published a book on the “natural born Citizen” term which is available via Amazon and via the link below.
CDR Kerchner (Ret)
Author: Natural Born Citizen
http://www.kerchner.com/books/naturalborncitizen.htm
Congress, The Courts and the President ALL KNOW that an NBC IS “One Born in the U.S. to parents who are U.S. Citizens themselves”. It is long established and settled law. They cannot claim “Constitution[al] ignorance”. J’Accuse all of them of treasonous deliberate disregard of the Constitition, nonfeasance, malfeasance and sedition.
I have hard evidence in the form of screenshots from the Department of Homeland Security website where they changed the definition of POTUS eligibility right before my eyes. I took before and after copies and hid them with my confidential papers. I am ready to share them publicly now if anyone is interested.
Why are presidential eligibility requirements ignored? The reason that Art 2, Sect 1, Clause 5 of our U.S. Constitution, especially the part about having to be a “natural born citizen,” is being ignored actually is pretty elementary: CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS, THE DNC, SPINELESS RINOs, THE CIA, COMMUNISTS, THE DEEP STATE, NEW WORLD ORDER ELITISTS, AND OTHERS colluded to allow constitutionally ineligible BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA to be elected (2008) and sworn in (2009) to the presidency. Obama was a SERIAL CRIMINAL, COMMUNIST MENTORED AND CIA GROOMED, LIKELY FOREIGN BORN (if not, then why would he need a forged Hawaiian Birth Certificate?), ARAB AMERICAN APPEARING (instead of Black), MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE. He says that he STOLE the highest office in our land and control of our country’s armed forces. This was when the beginning of the end started for America. Obama promised to FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORM our constitutional republic (as if he was more wise than and superior to our Founding Fathers). A good friend of mine likes to say that Obama committed a crime which has proved to be “TOO BIG TO PROSECUTE.” I might add, too, that there are many co-conspirators whose numbers would easily overrun our already crowded and inefficient courts. Safety in numbers? Anyway, I call all of this TREASON and challenge our elected and appointed representatives in government to PUT AN END TO IT WHILE IT STILL MIGHT (emphasis on “might”) BE POSSIBLE. Is it really that difficult to see what is going on? Just look around you. Your lying eyes are not wrong.
Don’t forget Rubio and Cruz, neither were NBC. And John McCain was said to be born in a hospital not on American land in the Panama Canal. There was no hospital on American-controlled land in Panama, hence he was born in Panama.
You are Correct:
Rubio,Cruz, McCain, Jindal,Swarzenegger, Duckworth, Harris, Haley,Obama, Chester Arthur and several others are ALL ineligible.
McCain was born in Colon, Panama and not in the PanamaCanal Zone. Indeed, Colon, Panama AND Panama City, Panama were specifically EXCLUDED by treaty from the PCZ.
Even IF McCain was born within the parameters of the PCZ, he still would not have been born “In the United States”. The PCZ was never fully incorporated into the U.S. In fact, there are NO territories of the USA today, with the exception of Palmyra Atol, that ARE fully incorporated for Article II purposes.
If one is born on Palmyra Atol to two US citizen parents he/she would BE an NBC. Not even Puerto Rico qualifies as a Fully incorporated territory for Article II purposes.
Persons born in unincorporated territories of the US are US citizens by statute and are NOT born on US Soil.
Neither are persons NBCs who are born at sea on a US ship, in the air outside the limits of the US, at US embassies outside the US or on US bases outside of the US.
Embassies of the US in foreign nations, are on property which is sovereign to the particular host nation as are US Bases in foreign countries.
Emer de Vattel’s ‘The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law (1758)’
BOOK 1, CHAPTER 19
Of Our Native Country, and Several Things That Relate to It
§ 217. Children born in the armies of the state or in the house of its minister at a foreign court.
For the same reasons also, children born out of the country, in the armies of the state, or in the house of its minister at a foreign court, are reputed born in the country; for a citizen who is absent with his family, on the service of the state, but still dependent on it, and subject to its jurisdiction, cannot be considered as having quitted its territory.
BTW, I’ve noticed quite a few of you have been misquoting Vattel on what has become well known as his Citizenship Article: BOOK 1, CHAPTER 19, § 212. Citizens and natives. It’s the 2nd sentence of § 212. Check how Vattel wrote it in his original edition (1758). Then check how you’ve been quoting it.
Line #8: Should read “I say…” Not “He says…” Sorry, my time to edit/correct ran out on me. Tom A.
The Obama usurpation during war time made Obama a Traitor and a spy under UCMJ 906.106-Spies. It’s not “too big to prosecute”. It means convening a Military Tribunal Court-Martial. It carries the Death penalty, if convicted.