Tag: ipse dixit
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The Simmering nbC Issue
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2025 (Sep. 12, 2025) — Introduction As the “birthright citizenship” issue strolls its way through the lower federal courts, its related “kissing cousin” issue – the “natural born Citizen” (“nbC”) presidential eligibility restriction – remains on a back burner, simmering in a pot of widespread electorate, academic and media indifference. Happily, one…
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Ipse Dixit…, Obey or Else
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Jan. 26, 2022) — P&E readers who have perused various of your humble servant’s offerings on the “natural born citizen” issue will recognize the term “ipse dixit.” That Latin maxim translates, literally, to “He himself said it.” The phrase is generally interpreted to mean that a fact or proposition being asserted…
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The Decisions in Elliott v. Cruz and Williams v. Cruz, Conclusion
“FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED REASONING” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2016 (Apr. 26, 2016) — [Editor’s Note: The following is a continuation of Joseph DeMaio’s detailed analysis of the outcome of two challenges to the constitutional eligibility of Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican presidential candidate born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada to a non-U.S.-citizen father and a presumed U.S.-citizen mother on…
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The Decisions in Elliott v. Cruz and Williams v. Cruz
“A BLIND RUBBER-STAMPING” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2016 (Apr. 25, 2016) — Introduction No sooner had your faithful servant submitted the prior post here analyzing the myriad anomalies of the January 11, 2016 Congressional Research Service Report R4209732 entitled “Qualifications [sic] for President and the ‘Natural Born’ Citizenship [sic] Eligibility Requirement” when the news broke that…