washamericom
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i know how you feel mama, this guy just dusted everybody. koodies.hey you're pretty good... care to weigh in on the grandfather clause, natural born, or wong kim ark ?honestly i don't know
Don't you think you should find out before you start apeing his story? Because its entirely possible that you're reciting yet another delusion from a man that has asked to be put into mental hospital.
I believe he is referring to his application for an en banc hearing in which the Circuit Judges take a poll as to whether they want to re-hear the case. Any case, even the most frivolous case, can ask for such a hearing. It is kind of pathetic that anyone thinks this is news. Pretty much every pro se frivolous appeal asks for such a re-hearing. And he actually misspells "en banc." Comically, he argues that since the previous court was so harsh and disparaging in dismissing his silly claims, they must be biased. Seriously, that is his argument. It never occurs to him, a layperson without training in law, that the judges were harsh and disparaging because his argument were frivolous and comical. Can't you birthers pool your money together to hire a real lawyer to file an actual complaint rather than just saying that hundreds of judges are corrupt or stupid. Has it really never occurred to you that the bithers bringing these suits, including the idiot birthers who have some kind of law degree, have no idea what they are doing.
Uh, sure. The grandfather clause came about because James Wilson was deeply offended that the delegates were discussing prohibiting foreign born persons from participating in Congress, or waiting a very long time before they were eligible. Governor Morris calmed Wilson down by suggesting that current citizens, even naturalized citizens, would be excluded from such rules which meant foreign born person such as Wilson would be eligible. No on suggested persons born in the colonies were not natural born as even Madison said one's primary allegiance was to the community one was born in, i.e., the colony, not England. At this point they were discussing Congressional eligibility when the draft Constitution said Congress would choose the President. No one mentioned Vattel or parentage. Anyway, I challenge you to find any early legal authority that said the grandfather clause applied to anyone but the foreign born. Please provide the quote. LOL. Here from perhaps the most famous Justice in our history:
"It was doubtless introduced (for it has now become by lapse of time merely nominal, and will soon become wholly extinct) out of respect to those distinguished revolutionary patriots, who were born in a foreign land, and yet had entitled themselves to high honours in their adopted country….” Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 3:§§ 1472–73 (1833)
How many more quotes would you like? Can you find anyone saying otherwise. An interesting fact is that Maine had an NBC clause for governor without a grandfather clause and its first couple o governors were born prior to 1776 in the Colonies. No on suggested they were not natural born. Seems you have no idea what such term meant.
Wonderfully sourced. But you're kinda missing the point with all your 'facts' and 'quotes' and 'evidence'.
You need to feel. You need to believe. Thinking as much as you just did will only muddle things.
you never know who will show up at these things.
we're all here to learn.