Tag: Committee of Eleven
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Of Neologisms, End-Around Runs and Gorillas: The Congressional Research Service 2016 Report on Presidential Eligibility, Final Chapter
“NONSENSE ELEVATED TO AN ART FORM” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2016 (Apr. 9, 2016) — [Editor’s Note: The following is the fourth and final installment of legal scholar Joseph DeMaio’s detailed analysis of the January 11, 2016 Congressional Research Service (CRS) memo authored by legislative attorney Jack Maskell attempting to make an “end-around run” to Article…
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Of Neologisms, End-Around Runs and Gorillas: The Congressional Research Service 2016 Report on Presidential Eligibility, Part II
“DANGEROUS NONSENSE” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2016 (Apr. 4, 2016) — [Editor’s Note: The following is a continuation of an in-depth analysis of the meaning of the “natural born Citizen” requirement present in Article II, Section 1, clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution and how a series of Congressional Research Service (CRS) memos dating back to…
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Should We Elect An American President?
THE “NATURAL BORN CITIZEN” ISSUE EXPLAINED by Alan Korwin, ©2016, Gunlaws.com (Feb. 25, 2016) — Can just anyone be elected President of the United States? No, of course not. Foreigners for example are not eligible. The Constitution spells out the eligibility standards: Article II, Section 1: “No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a…
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Of Eligibility, Expediency and Humpback Whales
INTRODUCTION AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY by Joseph DeMaio, ©2015 (Mar. 23, 2015) — “The only principle to which most politicians will unfailingly adhere is expediency.” — Anonymous Two recent events prompt this post. First, today, Senator Ted Cruz formally announced that he will be a candidate for the GOP nomination for president in 2016. The announcement was…