True Definition of Natural Born Citizen
Further below, all three (3) tiers of U.S. citizenship are explained in simple terms, so that everyone can understand what it actually means to be a "natural born" citizen.
But first, a quick listing of current persons who are NOT natural born citizens includes Nikki Haley, Kamala Harris, Vivek Ramaswamy, and RFK Jr.'s recent pick for VP, Nicole Shanahan (each is just an "anchor baby" which is only the middle "native born" citizen tier). Meanwhile, Tulsi Gabbard has the proper parentage, but the slight issue for her is simply American Samoa itself, since it is an unincorporated territory/possession of the United States. Similar issues relate to whether or not any Puerto Rican citizen is truly deemed a U.S. "natural born" citizen. However, because all such islands are, in fact, under solid U.S. jurisdiction, this author will state that Tulsi and any other such second-generation citizens of any U.S. territory are therefore properly established as "natural born" citizens and eligible for the White House, exactly like John McCain was.
The Three (3) Levels of U.S. Citizenship, Explained in Simple Terms:
Most people are ignorant about what "natural born" actually means. Simply put, the "natural" part refers to [purity/pure blood/purity of blood right], and the "born" part refers to that blood right status as of the moment of birth of the person in question.
There are three (3) levels or tiers of U.S. citizenship. The lowest level of citizenship is someone who was naturalized, i.e., any non-citizen who duly went thru the immigrant legal process to become a “naturalized” citizen, i.e., citizen by virtue of a government approval process. The middle level of citizenship is a “native born” citizen, which just means that the person was born somewhere within/on U.S. soil (including such rarer births upon U.S ships, aircraft or other vessels, in U.S. embassies, and so forth), i.e., citizen by virtue of being born within the geography of a nation. Think "anchor baby" as the easiest example of a “native born” citizen. The very highest level of citizenship, natural born, comes only by virtue of inheriting rights via the proper parentage, and is especially required of all candidates for the U.S. Presidency to reasonably guarantee their "purity" of all loyalty and allegiance unto the United States, and none unto any other nation. The Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution requires a Vice-President to meet all the same eligibility criteria as a President, including as a natural born citizen.
The term "natural born citizen" primarily comes from Emerich de Vattel and his 1758 treatise The Law of Nations, which basically still runs and rules the entire world unto this very day. Published originally in French, it was a very famous masterpiece of the enlightenment era, well known by all enlightened men, also studied by our Founding Fathers, as evidenced by George Washington’s two-hundred and twelve year overdue copy from the New York Society Library (replaced by the Mount Vernon Estate on May 19, 2010), and it defined all the principles of the law of nature applied to the conduct and affairs of nations and sovereigns. Its direct inclusion into our Federal Constitution (Art. I, Sec. 8, Clause 10 of the Constitution states: "The Congress shall have Power... To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations") (emphasis added) is proof positive of our Framers’ desire that it be a primary source of understanding. Indeed, by the very terms of said above Clause, the obvious constitutional duty of Congress specifically includes the defining and punishing of violations against The Law of Nations....
Book I of The Law of Nations, Chapter XIX, § 212 (Joseph Chitty numbering) entitled as “Citizens and natives” reads as follows: “The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights. The society is supposed to desire this, in consequence of what it owes to its own preservation; and it is presumed, as matter of course, that each citizen, on entering into society, reserves to his children the right of becoming members of it. The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; and these become true citizens merely by their tacit consent. We shall soon see whether, on their coming to the years of discretion, they may renounce their right, and what they owe to the society in which they were born. I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country.”
Vattel’s definitions make it clear that only having mere “anchor baby” (“native born”) citizen status is not enough, and that a "natural born" citizen is one whose parents were already citizens themselves at the time of his or her birth, and especially one whose father was already a citizen. § 213 and § 215 of this work reiterate this same basic principle again and again.
Vattel alternately used singular and plural definitions (“parents” or “father”/”parent”) both equally, since by 1758 women had gained rights/citizenship in some nations, and in such nations the same "natural born" criteria means that both parents are already citizens prior to the birth in question, because there cannot be any dilution of purity of the merged legal birthright inheritance as combined from both parents, and if either parent is a foreign citizen at said birth then the child is not a "natural born" citizen.
The same is, of course, also quite true here in the constitutional republic of the United States. Before women had established rights as American citizens, confirmed by Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1875), and then finally as American voters, via the 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment, you could still reasonably make an argument that a natural born citizen child required only that the father already be an American citizen prior to the birth of the child in question. But now, in modern times, there can be no reasonable question that all American women are equal in all rights as American men, including the particular act of passing down their own half of legal birthrights unto said new child born, hence now, in modern times, when both the father and mother pass their citizenships to the child, both must already be U.S. citizens before the birth, for the child to be validly recognized as a “natural born” citizen of this American nation.
The whole idea of “anchor baby” as the middle tier “native born” citizen comes from the ruling in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), when the Supreme Court held that when a child was born in America to non-citizen (in that case, Chinese) parents, that child was a United States “citizen” entitled to basic rights (in that case, to reenter the United States). This ruling was based upon jus soli ("right of the soil"; a "common law" doctrine), and not upon jus sanguinis ("right of the blood"; a "civil law" doctrine). The former (jus soli) provides basic citizenship rights, while the latter (jus sanguinis) provides the highest possible citizenship rights.
Some lawyers would mistakenly attempt to argue that American law follows British law, that "native born" equals "natural born" and even point to a few old U.S. Supreme Court cases that discuss the Old English term of "natural born subject" (which system was based upon jus soli), but that is foundational error. Colonial America specifically rejected any monarchy or caste system, and so the Continental Congress modeled the new America fully upon the Roman ways of doing things, i.e., as a constitutional republic, with citizenship available on equal basis, and all persons under the rule of law, so America also took the Roman method of blood right citizenship (jus sanguinis).
To be a "natural born" citizen in modern America means that, at the moment of your birth, both of your parents were each already a U.S. “citizen” (themselves being of any of the three levels of citizenship, i.e., natural born, or native born, or naturalized, and your Mom and Dad can be of different citizen levels). As long as Dad was already a U.S. “citizen” (of any level) before you were born and Mom was also already a U.S. “citizen” (of any level) before you were born, then you are a “natural born” citizen.
Nikki Haley is NOT a natural born citizen, and is constitutionally ineligible for the U.S. Presidency. But so was fake "President" Chester Arthur (1881-1885), and so was fake "President" Obama, who was an Indonesian citizen after his mother had to give up their U.S. citizenships to get young boy Obama into school there when they moved to Indonesia, hence the very best that Obama could ever be, after later on returning to the United States, is only the lowest “naturalized” level. Each of the following recent candidates is also NOT a natural born citizen, and is therefore ineligible to run: Vivek Ramaswamy, Rick Santorum, Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal, and Ted Cruz. Additionally, there are also various related “natural born” citizenship eligibility issues about former candidates Barry Goldwater (1964), George Romney (1968), and John McCain (2008).
Saying that somebody is "a citizen" only establishes the third “naturalization” level as a minimum. And saying that somebody "was born here" only establishes the second level of "native" citizenship. For all intents and purposes the American legal system (and case law) treats both the “naturalized” citizens and the “native born” citizens as equal, regular, basic “citizens” with all normal rights of citizenship. But it takes having two (2) parents who were both already citizens (of any level) themselves prior to your birth, in order for your status to be at the highest level as a “natural born” citizen of the United States. Only about 4/5ths to 5/6ths of the "citizens" of this country are "natural born" citizens, and the rest are mostly “native born” citizens or “naturalized” citizens, plus there are also illegal immigrants, foreign tourists, foreigners with work visas, foreign diplomats, terrorists, and various other levels/types of non-citizens.
Sure, almost every American natural born citizen (jus sanguinis) also has the lesser status of native born citizen (jus soli) included as an unnecessary bonus, because they have the blood right hook and they also have the birthplace geography hook.
“Vice President” Kamala Harris is also NOT a natural born citizen. She is an anchor baby, or “native born” citizen like Nikki. She was never, and is not, eligible for either the Presidency or the Vice-Presidency, and her very presence within that Office is a constitutional fraud of the very highest magnitude (just like “President” Arthur and “President” Obama). But it means even more than that.... Because the Biden-Harris “ticket” is and was an unconstitutional “ticket” for attempting to include an ineligible person, the entire 2020 result is a fraud, and the entire result is legally void, hence an argument can easily be made that Biden is not President simply due to Harris (without even talking about the widespread “irregularities” of the 2020 “election”).
That makes twice now that Biden has conspired fraudulently with a constitutionally ineligible person to illegally take over the White House -- two (2) recent long crime sprees perpetrated by the Democratic National Committee.
When anyone tries to falsely argue (“born in America = natural born eligible” or “any citizen is eligible”) or any similar, they are acting tantamount to committing multiple federal crimes of three general categories, including various “election interference” crimes (there are many such statutes), various computer-related crimes such as wire fraud (presuming use of social media, email, website, or similar online communication involved), and then also applicable are some of the regular old normal “fraud” crimes as variously prohibited by federal law.
First, remind/educate them on the simple basics, as follows:
1. All Cadillacs are cars, but not all cars are Cadillacs. All oranges are fruit, but not all fruit are oranges. In the same way, all natural born citizens are “citizens” but not all “citizens” are natural born citizens.
2. The 3rd level of U.S. citizenship is a “naturalized” citizen obtained by virtue of government approval.
3. The 2nd level of U.S. citizenship is a “native born” citizen obtained by virtue of birthplace geography.
4. The 1st level of U.S. citizenship is a “natural born” citizen obtained by virtue of citizen parents at birth.
5. The point of requiring “natural born” status is to reasonably ensure loyalty and allegiance by the President.
Then, if they still persist, call them out for what they are actually doing, i.e., willfully acting as criminal subversives to falsely undermine America and our Constitution, and recklessly engaging in wild election interference and outrageous fraud upon all other candidates, upon all voters and against the rule of law, not to mention also totally exposing themselves as completely incompetent about the topic being discussed.
Don’t ever let another constitutionally ineligible person sneak fraudulently into our White House, ever again! DO something about it!
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