Tag: Emmerich de Vattel
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Former Obama Eligibility Challenger: “Undivided Political Allegiance at Birth” a Presidential Requirement
by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 23, 2026) — On July 3, former Obama eligibility litigant Tracy Fair, writing as Lexi Fehr, announced she published a book addressing what she says are “the immense procedural hurdles citizens face when seeking judicial review of constitutional questions.” The work, titled “We The Sheeple: How the Media, Congress, and the…
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Birthright Citizenship–A Third World Invasion Created by the Judiciary
by Leonard Daneman, paraleaglenm.com, ©2026 (Apr. 14, 2026) — The Hamdi case (vs Rumsfeld) was a disgrace. If I recall, he was caught as a ‘driver for terrorists’ overseas, fighting for the Taliban. Under the INA, fighting with a foreign military force is grounds for denaturalization.1 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the State Department deportation…
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Exclusive: Yahoo AI: Vattel “Primary Authority” on “natural born Citizen”
by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 26, 2026) — On Wednesday, “Scout,” Yahoo!’s artificial intelligence tool, asserted to longtime P&E reader Creg Maroney that Emmerich de Vattel is “the primary legal authority” on the Article II term “natural born Citizen.” The Framers settled on just three requirements for the President and Commander-in-Chief contained in Article II, Section…
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“Birthright Citizenship” of Child of Foreign Diplomat Revoked
by Sharon Rondeau, h/t CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr. (Ret), blogging at cdrkerchner, ©2025 (Sep. 6, 2025) — In a striking opinion issued last month, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s opinion that now 75-year-old Roberto Moncada, though born in the United States, should not have been…
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Will CRS “Sleight of Hand” Stand?
by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 22, 2024) — On Saturday evening The Post & Email published an article by legal scholar Joseph DeMaio exposing misrepresentation by omission, later alteration and the disappearance of a Congressional Research Services (CRS) report on the meaning of the Article II, Section 1, clause 5 term of art, “natural born Citizen.” The…
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Gutfeld: Questioning Obama’s Citizenship “Wasn’t a Sustained Thing”
by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 17, 2024) — In a discussion on Monday’s edition of “The Five” about political speech that could potentially incite violence, former Tennessee congressman Harold Ford, Jr. suggested 45th President and 2024 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s alleged contention that Barack Hussein Obama was “not a citizen” constituted a form of political…
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Conway Leaves Out “Natural Born”
by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 3, 2023) — On Fox News’s Friday edition of “The Five,” speaking to the 2024 presidential election, guest co-host and former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway cited the constitutional requirements for the nation’s chief executive to be “35 years old” and a “U.S. citizen.” “The Five” airs at 5:00 p.m. ET every…
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The “Natural Born Citizen” Term is Neither Confusing, Ambiguous, Sexist, Racist, or Overly Restrictive if One’s Mind is Open to the Truth and Not Pettifogging on the Term
by CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr. (Ret), blogging at CDRKerchner, ©2023 (May 6, 2023) — The Vattel “Law of Nations or Principles of Natural Law” in various editions (1758/1775/1797) has a plainly clear and succinct key sentence definition of “natural born Citizen” in Volume 1, Chapter 19, Section 212, 2nd sentence of Vattel’s legal treatise…
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Natural Born Citizen
by Harold Gielow, ©2023 (May 3, 2023) — Rumor is that the Kennedy campaign is considering Tulsi Gabbard as a VP. Mrs. Gabbard is a very attractive choice with one exception – she is constitutionally unqualified. The natural born citizen clause of the Constitution has been ignored for some time. It has been nullified by…
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Redux: Vattel – Law of Nations Vol. 1 Chapter III § 30. Of the Support of the Constitution and Obedience to the Laws
by CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr. (Ret), blogging at CDRKerchner, ©2023 (Apr. 27, 2023) — I originally posted the quote (in italics further down in this article) from Emer de Vattel’s legal treatise “The Law of Nations or Principles of Natural Law” in the BlogSpot blog of the now deceased Attorney Mario Apuzzo back in…
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My Translation of a Key Sentence in Emer de Vattel’s 1758 Treatise on Natural Law in Section 212 -“Des citoyens et naturels”
by CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr., (Ret), blogging at cdrkerchner, ©2023 (Apr. 15, 2023) — The key sentence in the original 1758 French edition written by Vattel: “Les naturels, ou indigénes, sont ceux qui sont nés dans le pays, de parents citoyens.” First let’s do a direct translation of the key sentence using this online…
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Author’s Response to “de Vattel Denier” Boggs
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Mar. 28, 2023) — On March 28, 2023 at 11:25 a.m., in response to the article authored by your faithful servant here, one “Lucius Boggs” wrote: “Label this comment – Everything that is old is new again.” After offering the above observation, the commenter then includes a live link to a…
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The Role of States and “POPE’s” in Presidential Eligibility Determinations
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Mar. 20, 2023) — Recently there appeared here at The P&E – one of the few remaining viable and non-censored Internet “natural born Citizen” information sources – a particularly relevant and insightful post. The P&E post reprised the article and substance of a proposal advanced here by one Roger Ogden. Mr.…
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Do Americans “Know Who They Are”?
by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 7, 2023) — On Sunday morning, The Post & Email published an article reflecting a dialogue initiated with us by Twitter user @MAPennell regarding the U.S. Constitution’s “natural born Citizen” clause as it relates to Ohio-born 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. It was MAPennell’s opinion that Ramaswamy should “post both parent’s…
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What If…?
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Dec. 15, 2022) — What if your humble servant were to reveal something here at The P&E which could, once and for all, put an end to “natural born Citizen” (“nbC”) debate raging in the comments sections of numerous posts here? What if recently-discovered “hard” evidence – in the form of…
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Response to Some nbC Comments
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Dec. 2, 2022) — Well, here we go again. As faithful P&E readers know, on occasion several of your humble servant’s posts generate robust comments. These comments usually relate to posts addressing the “natural born Citizen” (“nbC”) presidential eligibility clause of the Constitution, Art. 2, § 1, Cl. 5. There, of…
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A Tandem Impeachment?
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Nov. 22, 2022) — From time to time, faithful readers of The P&E – and even the occasional liberal or Democrat – offer comments to your humble servant’s offerings. On occasion, a comment will pique your servant’s interest and result in another post. Such is the case now. In this recent…
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Response to Multiple Comments on the Natural Born Citizen Issue
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Mar. 18, 2022) — First, let us agree to disagree, but without being rancorous. There is a big difference between an honest, if ill-informed, debate and a heated argument…., unless the latter is preferred. With apologies for the length of this offering, there are many points to cover. Messrs. Becker, Fremick,…
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“Native-born” ≠ “Natural-born”
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Mar. 1, 2022) — From time to time, your humble servant’s P&E postings generate comments deserving response. On most occasions, the responses are posted in the same place. When a longer, more comprehensive response is indicated, a separate post is offered. Such is the case with the following response to the…
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The Saga of the Dueling Anecdotes
“THE BEST EVIDENCE” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Oct. 19, 2020) — In the continuing saga of “dueling anecdotes” regarding the issue of what the Founders intended when they engrafted onto the Constitution in 1787 the “natural born Citizen” clause, Art. 2, § 1, Cl. 5, commenters Schuyler Colfax and Joanna Brady continue adding their observations. …