I guess if you pick your favorite definition, you can have it your way. I am simply pointing to the definition in place (in international law) at the time the Constitution was written. The objective was to deny office to those who by birth might have an allegiance or obligation to a foreign power. You realize that you have eliminated this purpose.
I never saw an identification of that ashram. In your view, it must not exist. But there is no question he traveled on what could only have been an Indonesian passport, which is the real issue. Why he went is only a detail.
I think we were really talking about the definition of "natural-born citizen" per "The Law of Nations." Strange how we diverted from that. (Or we jumped the tracks and you are a new train of thought from the same thread.)
The Indonesian school record was official. A facsimile image was shown in the Wikipedia article.
I'm not really keen on just trusting wikipedia with whatever anyone puts up. What did the school have to say about it themselves?
Shoot me for not remembering a fine detail about the Pakistani school.
The year the school was founded would be a "fine" detail. The name of the school is not a fine detail. It's a very basic detail. If we don't even know the name of the school, there's no way to verify if these records are legitimate
I must take it that you accept no one's general information.
This is shown in the Wikipedia entry, but they wave it away as "an error."
Well, wikipedia can be edited by anyone at all. Where does the documentation come from? Is it from any official record?
Then it is known that he traveled to Pakistan as a teenager, to attend an Islamic school of some sort. He would not have had a U.S. passport, only an Indonesian one.
"Would not" is speculation. "Did not" would be something that's based on facts. Did he or did he not have a US passport?
Similarly, "school of some sort" is also speculation. What was the name of the school?
There is also the video interview (I've seen it) where he alludes to "my Muslim faith."
This would have no relevance to citizenship, as faith is not a requirement for citizenship
Also, forgive me, but since I don't know you, you just saying "I've seen it" isn't really that significant to me.
The Indonesian school record was official. A facsimile image was shown in the Wikipedia article.
No record of a U.S. passport in that time frame.
Shoot me for not remembering a fine detail about the Pakistani school. The video interview substantiates the accuracy of the Indonesian school record.
I see you are reduced to pettifogging...although this is not "that significant" to you. We are all anons, my friend, known to no one, and I must take it that you accept no one's general information.
It's not a matter of precedent if there was a pertinent legal definition available and known at the time of writing. Why was this a mystery to following generations, but not to John Jay and George Washington? Because they read "The Law of Nations," which was the pertinent legal source. The aversion to refer to this source allows the matter to be made a mystery, and then anything can be made to fit.
I don't follow. Who would have been the first?
The irony is that, in every likelihood, Obama was not an American citizen, by reason of having become an Indonesian citizen through adoption by Lolo Soetoro. He was registered as a student in the Indonesian schools (not for non-citizens) and traveled to Pakistan on what only could have been an Indonesian passport. There is a procedure that one might use to reclaim one's citizenship, but there is no record of him having done that. It is suspicious that he has concealed the records for his early adult years.
There is a strong presumption (listed as being an Indonesian citizen in school records, traveling on an Indonesian passport) that his U.S. citizenship was abandoned to become an Indonesian citizen. Citizenship can be forsworn, you know. There is also the lively controversy about him being born in Kenya, as Kenyans like to claim.
But I guess it is easier not to question the mainstream narrative. Funny behavior on this site.
I guess if you pick your favorite definition, you can have it your way. I am simply pointing to the definition in place (in international law) at the time the Constitution was written. The objective was to deny office to those who by birth might have an allegiance or obligation to a foreign power. You realize that you have eliminated this purpose.
It was the Pakistani school we were talking about
I never saw an identification of that ashram. In your view, it must not exist. But there is no question he traveled on what could only have been an Indonesian passport, which is the real issue. Why he went is only a detail.
I think we were really talking about the definition of "natural-born citizen" per "The Law of Nations." Strange how we diverted from that. (Or we jumped the tracks and you are a new train of thought from the same thread.)
I'm not really keen on just trusting wikipedia with whatever anyone puts up. What did the school have to say about it themselves?
The year the school was founded would be a "fine" detail. The name of the school is not a fine detail. It's a very basic detail. If we don't even know the name of the school, there's no way to verify if these records are legitimate
Correct. I look at the facts that are available.
Well, I apologize for trying to impart some general information without footnotes.
Well, wikipedia can be edited by anyone at all. Where does the documentation come from? Is it from any official record?
"Would not" is speculation. "Did not" would be something that's based on facts. Did he or did he not have a US passport?
Similarly, "school of some sort" is also speculation. What was the name of the school?
This would have no relevance to citizenship, as faith is not a requirement for citizenship
Also, forgive me, but since I don't know you, you just saying "I've seen it" isn't really that significant to me.
The Indonesian school record was official. A facsimile image was shown in the Wikipedia article.
No record of a U.S. passport in that time frame.
Shoot me for not remembering a fine detail about the Pakistani school. The video interview substantiates the accuracy of the Indonesian school record.
I see you are reduced to pettifogging...although this is not "that significant" to you. We are all anons, my friend, known to no one, and I must take it that you accept no one's general information.
It's not about favorite definition, it's the precedent set by the wording of the constitution and subsequen rulings by congress and the supreme court.
But either way, going by your definition, Obama would be the second non natural-born citizen president of the US.
Why is it only a huge deal now?
It's not a matter of precedent if there was a pertinent legal definition available and known at the time of writing. Why was this a mystery to following generations, but not to John Jay and George Washington? Because they read "The Law of Nations," which was the pertinent legal source. The aversion to refer to this source allows the matter to be made a mystery, and then anything can be made to fit.
I don't follow. Who would have been the first?
The irony is that, in every likelihood, Obama was not an American citizen, by reason of having become an Indonesian citizen through adoption by Lolo Soetoro. He was registered as a student in the Indonesian schools (not for non-citizens) and traveled to Pakistan on what only could have been an Indonesian passport. There is a procedure that one might use to reclaim one's citizenship, but there is no record of him having done that. It is suspicious that he has concealed the records for his early adult years.
Chester A Arthur would be the first non-natural born president of the US. His father was not a US citizen.
Probably because he was born in the USA, and, thus, was a citizen at birth.
There is a strong presumption (listed as being an Indonesian citizen in school records, traveling on an Indonesian passport) that his U.S. citizenship was abandoned to become an Indonesian citizen. Citizenship can be forsworn, you know. There is also the lively controversy about him being born in Kenya, as Kenyans like to claim.
But I guess it is easier not to question the mainstream narrative. Funny behavior on this site.