The Second amendment
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The Second amendment
Topic for all you patriots. Discuss your rights, common law, magna carta, whatever.
If you bring up 2nd Amendment in my "end all guns" topic, I will quote and reply here. Otherwise, I have nothing to say.
Otherwise you can have this as your romper room.
If you bring up 2nd Amendment in my "end all guns" topic, I will quote and reply here. Otherwise, I have nothing to say.
Otherwise you can have this as your romper room.
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Nobody laugh neither, orite? Serious shit be seriouz.
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We all have the right to bare gnus!
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Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
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Fuck off Tero.Tero wrote:Topic for all you patriots. Discuss your rights, common law, magna carta, whatever.
If you bring up 2nd Amendment in my "end all guns" topic, I will quote and reply here. Otherwise, I have nothing to say.
Otherwise you can have this as your romper room.
"Seth is Grandmaster Zen Troll who trains his victims to troll themselves every time they think of him" Robert_S
"All that is required for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke
"Those who support denying anyone the right to keep and bear arms for personal defense are fully complicit in every crime that might have been prevented had the victim been effectively armed." Seth
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"All that is required for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke
"Those who support denying anyone the right to keep and bear arms for personal defense are fully complicit in every crime that might have been prevented had the victim been effectively armed." Seth
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Re: The Second amendment
Gun Nuts TM, have brought up Obama again. Since this is the active thread on the Constitution, the phrase "natural born citizen" is not defined in it:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural ... zen_clause
There is some history etc in there. In the 1700s, there was no technology to determine the father of a child. The Americanness could only be defined by the mother.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural ... zen_clause
There is some history etc in there. In the 1700s, there was no technology to determine the father of a child. The Americanness could only be defined by the mother.
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Correct, the phrase is not defined in the Constitution because at the time the Constitution was adopted it was a phrase of common usage and everybody understood exactly what it meant: it meant that both parents of the candidate had to be citizens of the United States. This was a problem for the first couple of generations of Presidents because at the beginning all of them were British citizens and their parents were British citizens, which is why they inserted the provision, "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."Tero wrote:Gun Nuts TM, have brought up Obama again. Since this is the active thread on the Constitution, the phrase "natural born citizen" is not defined in it:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural ... zen_clause
There is some history etc in there. In the 1700s, there was no technology to determine the father of a child. The Americanness could only be defined by the mother.
This highlighted clause dealt with the obvious problem they faced and made explicit exception for those who were citizens of the United States by virtue of the fact that they were alive when the Constitution was adopted. This part makes it perfectly clear that there are two classes of citizen, "natural born citizen" and "citizen" and that after those who were alive at the time the Constitution was adopted died, no person other than a "natural born citizen" could be President.
This distinction proves absolutely that the intent of the Framers was to exclude persons whose parents were not both citizens of the United States from being eligible for the office of President.
And Barack Obama's parents were not both US citizens. Therefore he is not qualified to hold the office of President.
And I'll post this wherever the fuck I choose to post it.
"Seth is Grandmaster Zen Troll who trains his victims to troll themselves every time they think of him" Robert_S
"All that is required for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke
"Those who support denying anyone the right to keep and bear arms for personal defense are fully complicit in every crime that might have been prevented had the victim been effectively armed." Seth
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"Those who support denying anyone the right to keep and bear arms for personal defense are fully complicit in every crime that might have been prevented had the victim been effectively armed." Seth
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A natural born citizen is one who popped out of the womb when mum was on US soil. The constitution would have made the requirement that mother and father would also have to be US citizens explicit just like its authors bothered to insert the grandfather clause. They did not because they had no intention to impose such a requirement. If you were right, Cruz, Jindal and Rubio would have grounds to worry about the legitimacy of running for the US presidency. I think they have nothing to fear even though none of them were offspring of two US citizens at the time they were born, simply because that is not a requirement.
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Nope. That's just a plain old "citizen." Moreover, it's still a "citizen" even if it popped out on some other country's soil so long at one of its parents is a US citizen.Hermit wrote:A natural born citizen is one who popped out of the womb when mum was on US soil.
"Natural born" citizens are a different thing.
There is no requirement that the Constitution include a glossary of defined terms. The common rules of statutory construction and interpretation used for thousands of years cover such ambiguities.The constitution would have made the requirement that mother and father would also have to be US citizens explicit just like its authors bothered to insert the grandfather clause.
If so, then why is the term "natural born citizen" found in Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5 at all? And why is that the ONLY place in the Constitution that term is found. One of the rules of statutory interpretation says that no words in a law (in this case the Constitution) are meaningless surplusage. Every word written and ratified means something. So. given that the words "natural born citizen" are indeed found in the Constitution, in the section applying ONLY to qualification to be President, and everywhere else "citizen" is mentioned it does NOT include the qualifier "natural born," what then does "natural born citizen" mean that is DIFFERENT from "citizen?"They did not because they had no intention to impose such a requirement.
Er, they do have something to worry about, and neither Jindal, Cruz nor Rubio is qualified to be President.
If you were right, Cruz, Jindal and Rubio would have grounds to worry about the legitimacy of running for the US presidency.
I think they are ignoring the issue just as Obama did, and I disagree that any of them is qualified. But being qualified to be President doesn't prevent someone from running for the office in an election, it just means that they cannot be elected.I think they have nothing to fear even though none of them were offspring of two US citizens at the time they were born, simply because that is not a requirement.
What's sauce for the goose is indeed sauce for the gander and I'll be surprised if any of them makes it to the nomination stage, much less winning the election.
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"All that is required for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke
"Those who support denying anyone the right to keep and bear arms for personal defense are fully complicit in every crime that might have been prevented had the victim been effectively armed." Seth
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"Those who support denying anyone the right to keep and bear arms for personal defense are fully complicit in every crime that might have been prevented had the victim been effectively armed." Seth
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To make a distinction between a person who is a citizen by virtue of being born on US soil and a person like, say, Christopher Hitchens or Rupert Murdoch is a naturalised citizen.Seth wrote:why is the term "natural born citizen" found in Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5 at all?
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Er, that's why they have the terms "natural born citizen" and "citizen." The point being that once "naturalized" the person becomes a "citizen" (not a "naturalized citizen") but can never be a "natural born citizen" because his or her parents are not citizens of the United States.Hermit wrote:To make a distinction between a person who is a citizen by virtue of being born on US soil and a person like, say, Christopher Hitchens or Rupert Murdoch is a naturalised citizen.Seth wrote:why is the term "natural born citizen" found in Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5 at all?
There is no such thing as a separate sub class of citizens called "naturalized citizens." Aliens become citizens by being "naturalized," and then they are citizens, but they are not "natural born" citizens and cannot hold the office of President of the United States, which is why Arnold Schwarzenegger cannot be President, but can be Governor of California.
You're either a citizen or your not a citizen and you're either a citizen or a natural born citizen, the distinction being that natural born citizens have parents who are BOTH citizens of the United States. And it doesn't matter how they came to be citizens, whether born as citizens or naturalized, so long as they are citizens when you are born, you are a natural born citizen and eligible to hold the office of President.
If one of them was not a citizen at the time of your birth, you are not a natural born citizen and cannot lawfully hold that office.
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"All that is required for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke
"Those who support denying anyone the right to keep and bear arms for personal defense are fully complicit in every crime that might have been prevented had the victim been effectively armed." Seth
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And that is exactly why the US Constitution uses the the expression "natural born" rather than "naturalised". The former is a US citizen by birth right, the latter by governmet approval.Seth wrote:Aliens become citizens by being "naturalized," and then they are citizens, but they are not Aliens become citizens by being "naturalized," and then they are citizens, but they are not "natural born" citizens and cannot hold the office of President of the United States citizens
You have yet to furnish evidence that if a person is born when one of the parents is not a US citizen at the time, that person is not legally entitled to be classed as a natural born citizen, and I doubt you could do that even if you tried.
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Who is going to spread the bad news that Jesus will never be elligible to become President?
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Have to agree with Seth: Cruz is not eligible. Other than that, disagree. The children (born on US soil) of immigrants residing in US permanently were not to be denied rights including presidency. The parents, obviously, were.
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For the presidency, Cruz can be defined as mostly Canadian till 2005 or even 2013
In August 2013, after the Dallas Morning News pointed out that Cruz had dual Canadian-American citizenship,[33] he applied to formally renounce his Canadian citizenship and ceased being a citizen of Canada on May 14, 2014.[32][34]
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In August 2013, after the Dallas Morning News pointed out that Cruz had dual Canadian-American citizenship,[33] he applied to formally renounce his Canadian citizenship and ceased being a citizen of Canada on May 14, 2014.[32][34]
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