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Donald Trump Is Right to Retweet that Marco Rubio Is Not a Natural Born Citizen                                                   By Mario Apuzzo, Esq.                                                      February 22, 2016 Donald Trump retweeted that both Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are not natural born citizens.  See https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/701045567783219201 .  George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, February 21, 2016, asked Trump on ABC’s “This Week” about his Saturday retweet and whether he really believed that Marco Rubio was not a natural born citizen.  See at about 1:30 at   https://youtu.be/R9GkFo1Kfno  ("Donald Trump on His South Carolina Primary Win, the GOP, and the Cruz Campaign Ta...

What Do President Obama and Senator Cruz Have In Common?  They Are Both Not Natural Born                                                                    Citizens                                                          By Mario Apuzzo, Esq.                                                               February 20, 2015 Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 provides: “ No person except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the of...

                                           The Rule of Law and the “Natural Born Citizen” Clause                                                             By: Mario Apuzzo, Esq.                                                     ...

Donald Trump Is a “Natural Born Citizen” But Putative President Barack Obama Is Not By Mario Apuzzo, Esq. March 31, 2011 Based on the information that has so far been provided to the public, I conclude that Donald Trump is an Article II "natural born Citizen" but Barack Obama is not. The Founders and Framers understood that under natural law and the law of nations, as explained by Emer de Vattel in his, The Law of Nations, Or, Principles of the Law of Nature (London 1797) (1st ed. Neuchatel 1758) (“Vattel”), a nation’s most fundamental duty is self-preservation. They therefore included the "natural born Citizen" clause in the Constitution so that each and every citizen would be protected by having someone assume and exercise the great and singular civil and military powers of the President and Commander in Chief with only their and the nation's values and safety at heart. To accomplish that end, the Founders and Framers required in Article II, Section 1, Clau...