On Monday I reported that The New American bi-weekly newsmagazine had printed my (lengthy) email letter to them on the subject of the ineligibility of Cruz AND OBAMA for the presidential office, regarding the 'natural born' issue. I mentioned that it had contained most of the main elements of the case;* and I am grateful to them for giving me my day in the court of public opinion (at least amongst its readership).
One of those main points involves the constitutional Framers' familiarity with E. de Vattel's "definitive tome" 'The Law of Nations' on the subject, and the happy historical coincidence that Benjamin Franklin -"their elder and respected mentor" - of whom it is decidedly known was very familiar with the de Vattel definition of an NBC - was sitting right there amongst them as a delegate to the proceedings. I would like to make here an enlargement on, and as to, the point about the B. Franklin reference:
So, without a shred of doubt on the matter: they knew what they were voting on, and for. Just as both the Democrat and Republican parties knew what they were fudging on, off the evidence that elected representatives of both parties tried a total of eight times between 2003 and 2008 to get a constitutional amendment going through Congress on this very issue, in order to try to water down the ‘natural born’ requirement for the presidential office - and they failed each time even to get the matter out of committee, such was the sensitivity surrounding the issue. So, what did they do, in the end? They colluded. They have tried to sneak an end-around play on the Constitution, and the American people, on the matter.
Big mistake.
It will cost the party officials directly involved in the scam time in prison before Justice is finished with them. And both parties dissolved, under RICO-Statute proceedings, for Corrupt-Organization collusionary practices.
And if you are inclined to scoff and sneer and say that the Supreme Court would never allow the matter to go that far, I can do no better in response than to quote Thomas Jefferson on such a subject and in such an event:
“To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy…The Constitution on this hypothesis [alone] is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.”
That ain’t going to happen.
I will conclude my case by simply pointing out that original intent trumps judicial interpretation. And leave the matter at that.
As we move on, from here, and - after having set things right -
create a better world.
* there is still the matter of the paper by David Ramsay, Founder and historian, titled 'A Dissertation on the Manners of Acquiring the Character and Privileges of a Citizen,' published in 1789, to be entered into evidence; if the need still arises.
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