1. The Constitution requires that one be a “natural born citizen” to be eligible to serve as president.
2. A natural born citizen is one born in the US of US citizen parents (plural).
Proof: if a “natural born citizen” means just a citizen born in the US irrespective of parentage, as many erroneously assert, then the term citizen must be equivalent to and interchangeable with the term “natural born citizen” in Article 2, Section 1.
Substituting “citizen” for “natural born citizen” renders Article 2, Section 1, of the Constitution fatally flawed by an incompatible contradictory redundancy, conclusively demonstrating that the two terms are not equal.
No person except a “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.
3. The framers had no need to define the meaning of a natural born citizen in the Constitution because, as demonstrated by a simple substitution of terms, it is self evident that a “citizen” is not equal to a “natural born citizen”. Given the mutually exclusive distinctions regarding US citizenship, the meaning of a natural born citizen is easily deduced.
4. A citizen is one born in the US. This includes those born of non citizen parents as well as those born of one US citizen and one non US citizen parent. Naturalized citizens are those not born a citizen but later made a citizen. A “natural born citizen” as Constitutionally required by our Founding Fathers to assure the loyalty of the President as best they could, both encompasses and surpasses but is not equal to a citizen, and not being a naturalized citizen, must logically be what remains, which is, one born in the US of US citizen parents (plural).
5. Obama is not born of US citizen parents (plural) because his father is Kenyan.
6. Obama is not a natural born citizen, irrespective of where he was born.
7. Therefore, Obama is not Constitutionally eligible to serve as president of the United States of America.
Submitted in support and defense of the United States Constitution.
Duty, Honor, Country.
Respectfully,
A U.S. vet
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