Tag: Rogers v. Bellei
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Water, Fertilizer, And The Natural Born Citizen Clause – How Cruz And Rubio Are Deceptively Avoiding The Meaning of The Phrase
“NATURALIZED CITIZENS ARE NOT ELIGIBLE TO BE PRESIDENT” by Ron Smith, ©2016 (Feb. 15, 2016) — There’s an old saying in the legal profession that when the facts are against you, argue the law, and when the law is against you, argue the facts. And, when both the facts AND the law are against you,…
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‘We The People’ Should Either Apologize To Aldo Bellei, or Declare Ted Cruz NOT Eligible to President
“THREE SIMPLE WORDS” by Ron Smith, ©2016 (Feb. 10, 2016) — I don’t know if Aldo Bellei is alive today, but in 1971, his life took a dramatic turn when the United States Supreme Court reversed a lower court ruling and decided that the 31-year-old Italian-born American was no longer a U.S. citizen. The case,…
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Of Naturalized and Natural Born; the Court’s Point of View
STATUTES, AMENDMENTS CANNOT RENDER ONE “NATURAL BORN” by Bruce McKay, ©2015 (Nov. 25, 2015) — Once again, this Presidential Campaign season, the electorate is being confronted with the Presidential eligibility issue. Republican candidates, Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Marco Rubio, and until recently, Gov. Bobby Jindal, have questionable credentials with regards to the Constitution’s Article II…
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When Did the Definition of “natural born Citizen” Change?
BUT CAN CONGRESS LEGISLATE A CONSTITUTIONAL CLAUSE? by Glen Gilliland (Apr. 10, 2011) — When I was a young boy in Mr. Hanson’s fifth grade civics class in the mid-60s, we learned that the definition of “natural born Citizen” was exclusively a person born on US soil of parents who are US citizens. That has…