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A Response to the Idea of Removing the Natural Born Citizen Clause From Our Constitution By Mario Apuzzo, Esq. May 17, 2018 University of Richmond School of Law Professor Kevin C. Walsh proposes ridding our Constitution of its “natural born Citizen” clause.   See his article, “The ‘Irish Born’ One American Citizenship Amendment,” here https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3165238 . Professor Walsh writes that the original Constitution is not perfect and it is time to change its actual text.   In that connection, he advocates that naturalized American citizens should be eligible to be President.   He states: “There are not two classes of American citizenship, just one. It is time to repeal the Natural Born Citizen Clause.”   People have posted comments to his article and  Professor Walsh addresses them here https://reason.com/volokh/2018/05/17/replies-to-comments-on-a-constitutional and here http://beforeitsnews.com/libertarian/2018/05/replies-to-co...

If Winston Churchill Was Not Even a Citizen of the United States, How Can Ted Cruz Be Its Natural Born Citizen?                                                       By Mario Apuzzo, Esq.                                                            January 25, 2016 Under the common law the nomenclature with which the Framers were familiar when they drafted and adopted the Constitution, all children born in a country to parents who were its citizens were “natives, or natural-born citizens,” and all the rest of the people were “aliens or foreigners,” who could be naturalized by some law.  See Emer de Vattel,  The Law of Nations, or Principles of the Laws of Nature, Applied to the Conduct and Affa...

New Hampshire Ballot Access Challenges Against Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio Fail for Want of                                                            Jurisdiction                                                     By Mario Apuzzo, Esq.                                                        November 25, 2015 Christopher Booth of Concord, New Hampshire, Cameron Elliott of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Robert Laity of Tonawanda, New York, filed ballot access challenges in New Hampshire against presidential contenders Senator Ted Cruz and Senator Marco Rubio, arguing that neither...

July 4, 1776, the Birth Day of the Nation and the Natural Born Citizen By Mario Apuzzo, Esq. July 4, 2015 In defining an  Article II “natural born Citizen,”  it is important to find any authority from the Founding period who may inform us how the Founders and Framers themselves defined the clause. Who else but a highly respected historian from the Founding period itself would be highly persuasive in telling us how the Founders and Framers defined a natural born citizen.   Such an important person is David Ramsay, who in 1789 wrote,  A Dissertation on the Manners of Acquiring the Character and Privileges of a Citizen (1789) , a very important and influential essay on defining a natural born citizen. David Ramsay (April 2, 1749 to May 8, 1815)  was an American physician, patriot, and historian from South Carolina and a delegate from that state to the Continental Congress in 1782-1783 and 1785-1786. He was the Acting President of the United States in Congress Assem...

Senator Cruz, Senator Rubio, and Governor Jindal Should Not Be Allowed to Participate in the Presidential Debates Because They, Like De Facto President Obama, Are All Not Natural Born Citizens and Therefore Not Eligible to Be President By Mario Apuzzo, Esq. May 25, 2015 Soon, we will see various presidential candidates debate each other for the right to win their party’s nomination for President and ultimately to win the people’s and Electoral College’s vote for that Office.  The organizations that will be sponsoring these presidential debates, Commission on Presidential Debates, Fox News, Fox Business Network, Reagan Library Foundation, Salem Media Group, CNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, Telemundo, and National Review, in keeping with their bylaws, should not allow any person who is not constitutionally eligible for that office to debate.  Allowing constitutionally ineligible candidates to debate will only give the false impression to the American people that such persons are constitutio...