Tag: natural law
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Constitution Day – 17 Sep 2025: A Lesson from History. Is Being a Born Citizen of the United States Sufficient Citizenship Status to be President? The Founders and Framers Emphatically Decided — No It Is Not!
by CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr., P.E. (Ret), blogging at cdrkerchner, ©2025 (Sep. 17, 2025) — During the process of developing the U.S. Constitution Alexander Hamilton submitted a suggested draft for a Constitution on June 18, 1787. At some point, he also suggested to the framers a proposal for the qualification requirements in Article II…
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Constitution Day – 17 Sep 2024: A Lesson from History. Is Being a Born Citizen of the United States Sufficient Citizenship Status to be President? The Founders and Framers Emphatically Decided — No It Is Not!
by CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr., P.E. (Ret), blogging at cdrkerchner, ©2024 (Sep. 17, 2024) — During the process of developing the U.S. Constitution Alexander Hamilton submitted a suggested draft for a Constitution on June 18, 1787. At some point, he also suggested to the framers a proposal for the qualification requirements in Article II…
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‘Citizen at Birth’ Term vs ‘natural born Citizen’ Term: Grammatical and Logical Analysis
by CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr. (Ret), blogging at cdrkerchner, ©2024 (Aug. 9, 2024) — First, let us put on our thinking hat and do some simple grammatical analysis of the two terms ‘Citizen at Birth’ (“CAB”) and ‘natural born Citizen’ (“nbC”). The first term, “CAB”, tells the reader simply WHEN the person became a…
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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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Natural Born Citizen – Key Birth Status Definition, SCOTUS Fact Findings, and SCOTUS Holdings
by CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr. (Ret), blogging at CDRKerchner, ©2023 (Apr. 20, 2023) — Question: What birth status facts made a person under the principles of the Laws of Nature and Natural Law a “natural born citizen” in the last half of the 18th century, which covered the time frame of the founding of…
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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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States Should Enforce “Natural Born Citizen” Requirement
by Roger Ogden, Patriot Fire, ©2023 (Mar. 18, 2023) — The Constitution requires the president to be a “natural born citizen”. However, the term is not defined in the Constitution. Neither has a law or court ruling been made more exactly delineating the constraints of the term. The purpose of this post is not to…
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Natural Born Citizens Are The 3 Leaf Clover Kind of Citizens Not The 4 Leaf Clover Kind
by CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr. (Ret), blogging at CDRKerchner, ©2023 (Mar. 18, 2023) — (17 Mar 2023) — Regarding the term “natural born citizen” (NBC) in our U.S. Constitution’s presidential eligibility clause and Principles of Natural Law, it is not a very limited club and category of citizenship. In fact it is exactly the…
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Nikki Haley Is Not A Natural Born Citizen of USA To Constitutional Standards – Not Eligible To Be President
by CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr., (Ret), blogging at CDRKerchner, ©2023 (Jan. 30, 2023) — Both of Nikki Haley’s parents were not U.S. Citizens when Nikki was born. Nikki Haley was born to a Citizen of India father (minus one stool leg) and to a Citizen of India mother (minus the 2nd stool leg). The normal path…
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What’s Love Got To Do With It? Plenty.
by Ernest Huber, ©2022 (Jul. 14, 2022) — Decades ago while a law student I worked as a forensic psychologist for a court psychiatrist and did sanity evaluations of hospitalized or incarcerated defendants, including murderers. Imagine everyone’s surprise when I reported that most of them were quite sane when they committed their crimes, but had…
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Church and State, Wolves and Sheep, and We the People
by Ernest Huber, ©2022 (Jul. 13, 2022) — Church and State are inextricably intertwined – if one falls, the other will fall. We have been a great nation because we have been a Christian nation that acknowledges our God-given unalienable rights and responsibilities as confirmed by our founding documents. A nation’s predominant religion, or lack…
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You Have the Unalienable Right to Manage Your Own Healthcare
by Ernest Huber, ©2022 (Jul. 12, 2022) — Congratulations to those who recognize your freedom to take charge of your own healthcare and reject the deadly vaccine “mandates” spewed by insurgent federal, state, and local government employees. One of our next steps is to require local medical personnel and bureaucrats to prove by autopsy, tissue…
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So What Do We Do?
by Ernest Huber, ©2022 (Jul. 9, 2022) — So what do we do about this massive ongoing treason, corruption, and destruction throughout all levels of government and society? Things we’ve trusted before can generally no longer be trusted, e.g., the media, the political parties, medicine, the education system, the clergy, the intelligence agencies, our communications,…
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Mothers’ Day Madness
by ProfDave, ©2022 (Jun. 7, 2022) — [Editor’s Note: This article reflects its composition just after Mothers’ Day 2022.] What is going on? At least four mass shootings over this weekend plus Roe v Wade demonstrations last week (May 8, 2022), war in Europe and human smuggling on our southern border. Is someone or something…
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Constitution Day — 17 Sep 2021: A Lesson from History
by CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr. (Ret), blogging at CDRKerchner, ©2021 (Sep. 17, 2021) — During the process of developing the U.S. Constitution Alexander Hamilton submitted a suggested draft for a Constitution on June 18, 1787. At some point, he also suggested to the framers a proposal for the qualification requirements in Article II as…
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The Pearl of Disregard
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Apr. 27, 2021) — A Charles Colson’s commentary in 2009 cited “a report by a Harvard faculty committee, which read, ‘The aim of a liberal education . . . is to unsettle presumptions, to defamiliarize the familiar . . . [and] to disorient young people and to help them to find ways…
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KAMALA HARRIS: Unlawful Candidate
“THE CONSTITUTION MATTERS” by Gary M. Wilmott, ©2020 (Oct. 14, 2020) — Democrat Party candidate, California Senator Kamala Harris, is running for VPOTUS, despite being constitutionally INELIGIBLE. I wrote to Senator Harris in December of 2017 and put her on notice that any attempt by her to run a campaign for the presidency would be…
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Constitution Day – 17 Sep 2018: A Lesson from History
WHAT IS A “NATURAL BORN CITIZEN?” by CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr., P.E. (Ret), ©2018, blogging at CDRKerchner (Sep. 17, 2018) — Is Being Born a Citizen of the United States Sufficient Citizenship Status to be President? The Founders and Framers Emphatically Decided, “No, It Was Not!” During the process of developing a new U.S.…
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Top 10 Birther Facts – Birther Truth on Trial
“NATURE’S TIME” by Cody Robert Judy, ©2017 (Mar. 31, 2017) — A great many authors, writers, and commentators have misrepresented Birthers or Article II. Patriots steadfast on defending, protecting, and preserving the qualifications of the Office of the President, Commander-in-Chief, and head of the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government. While there may of course be…
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Second Verse Same as the First
“RULE BY FORCE INSTEAD OF BY CONSENT” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, bloggging at The Rebel Madman (Nov. 16, 2016) — “The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves — a much more…