I received the following comment concerning the capability of Kamala Harris becoming President:
Kamala Harris may not be eligible to become President since her parents were not US citizens when she was born.” BOGUS — Stick with the facts. The constitution does not say a natural born citizen’s parents must be USA citizens, it states that the person holding the office of president must be natural born citizen OR one parent a citizen if born out of the US. K Harris was born 10/10/1964 in Oakland, CA. She is a natural born citizen of the USA regardless of her mother being born in India and her father born in Jamaica. I enjoy the articles but don’t like it when facts are made up to fit a fictional story. It sounds like the “Rules of the Left” in trying to make something up. Keep it real.
While I have known about the natural born citizenship issue for over 12 years, I think this video by Publius Huldah is a great start:
Any argument based on the 14th amendment should also consider that this amendment was ratified under duress and is not legal. History is written by the victors and rewritten in the middle of the night by people who are only serving their own self interests. Such as Nancy Pelosi.
David DeGerolamo
1. The person whom you quoted suggests that you “made up to facts to fit a fictional story” – and then proceeds to flagrantly misquote Article II, § 1, Clause 5, US Constitution.
2. Section 1 of the 14th Amendment has nothing to do with “natural born citizen”.
As I have previously proved (by means of original source documents from our Framing Era defining “natural born citizen”), a “natural born citizen” is one who inherits his citizenship status from his parents by the “laws of nature” alone – the baby is born to the same status as his parents.
A “naturalized citizen” is one who becomes a “citizen” by operation of a man-made Proclamation such as the Declaration of Independence, §1 of the 14th Amendment, or an Act of Congress.
One of the purposes of § 1 of the 14th Amendment was to extend citizenship to freed slaves. That first generation of freed slaves became Citizens by operation of a man-made law: the 14th Amendment. So they became Citizens, but they were not “natural born” citizens, because they weren’t “born” as citizens from parents who were citizens.
However, after that first generation of former slaves became citizens, their children were “natural born” citizens because they were born of citizens.
Under some peoples’ misreadings of Sec. 1 of the 14th Amendment, illegal alien Muslims could come here and drop a baby and the baby could later be President! Our Framers didn’t want that! They wanted only people who were born of parents who were already citizens to be eligible to be President. And supposedly we would have standards for deciding who qualified for Citizenship….
The Left continually disregards the Consitution. It’s not been an impediment to their goals in the past. However, if they do acquiesce to its interpretation this time that paves the way for a President Pelosi. Yes?
Just for the record, the 19th amendment gave women the right to vote. Period. The Constitution exclusively refers to the President as “He”. Period.