RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING CONSTITUTIONAL ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

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Posted February 10th, 2008 by ILUVRON2008

This resolution will be presented to the Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Republican Convention on Saturday, March 8th, 2008:

WHEREAS

RESOLUTION OPPOSING THE PROMOTION, SUPPORT, OR ENDORSEMENT OF SENATOR JOHN McCAIN OF ARIZONA FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

Offered to the Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Republican Convention on Saturday, March 8th, 2008:

WHEREAS the Republican Party is founded upon the conservative political philosophy derived from the principle that individuals are endowed not by the government, but by the Creator, with certain unalienable rights; and

WHEREAS the Constitution of the United States is designed to guarantee the unfettered exercise of those rights by strictly limiting the power of government, whose authority is derived only from the consent of the governed; and

WHEREAS the Principles of Conservatism promote Liberty, Prosperity, and Individual Freedom; and

WHEREAS the leading presidential candidate for the Republican Party, Senator John McCain, has consistently demonstrated a record of public service counter to the philosophy and principles of conservatism and the Republican Party as evidenced by the following facts:

1. He has a consistent pattern of shocking verbal abuse, including screaming profanities, against Senate Republican colleagues who oppose his bills in any way; and

2. He has exercised scandalously poor judgment by intervening with the federal regulators on behalf of Charles H. Keating, Jr. in the Savings and Loan Crisis of the 1980s; and

3. He has worked against the principles of the Republican Party, promoting greatly expanding federal regulatory authority in order to combat global warming in ways that would greatly burden the American economy, contrary to free market forces; and

4. He has fought the Republican Party to create the Patient?s Bill of Rights, which allowed the government to impose a set of burdensome mandates on insurance coverage; and

5. He has undermined the principles of a free market economy by voting for an amendment that would authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to implement price controls on prescription drugs under Medicare; and

6. He has worked against the Republican Party to make a mockery of the rule of law, promoting amnesty for 20 million illegal immigrants; and

7. He has voted to subvert American Sovereignty by granting consulting rights to Mexico concerning the erection of a southern border fence; and

8. He has undermined the Constitution and opposed the Constitutional duties of the Vice President to break a tie on judicial nominations; and

9. He has worked against Conservative principles, undermining the First Amendment by abridging the free speech of citizens partaking in the political process; and

10. He has consistently led efforts undermining Second Amendment rights by promoting bills which regulate all sales at gun shows; regulations which force gun-owners to purchase trigger locks, making their firearms useless for self-defense; regulations which restrict the legitimate transfer of firearms over the internet; and regulations which extend the restrictions of the Brady bill to pawn shops and gun repair shops; and

11. He has voted to use taxpayer funds to harvest stem cells from human embryos; and

12. He has refused to take immediate and direct action to protect the life of the unborn; he opposes the repeal of Roe v. Wade; and he opposes a constitutional amendment to protect all human life; and

13. He sponsored and voted for a 282% tax increase on cigarettes that would have unconstitutionally violated the First Amendment and increased the size of the federal bureaucracy exponentially by giving the FDA unrestricted control over nicotine; and

14. He supports raising Social Security taxes; and

15. He has broken with the Republican Party in strongly opposing President Bush's tax cuts in 2001 and 2003. He also joined leading Democratic senators in offering and voting for amendments designed to undermine the tax cuts,

THEREFORE LET IT BE RESOLVED that the Republican Party of Mecklenburg County opposes any effort to promote, support, or endorse Senator John McCain as the Republican nominee; and

LET IT BE FURTHER RESOLVED that the Republican Party of Mecklenburg County will only support candidates who promote the philosophy and principles of conservatism in government; who promote smaller government, fiscal discipline, and greater economic and personal freedoms; and whose records of public service are evidence of their principled beliefs.

This all brings up a good point that we need our own constitutional law firm to work through like gold water jr's or others that we keep a million dollar funding of annual to take cases like this to the supreme court.

I hear it take 500k for a single case to be heard there on substantial matters.

So it would seem we have a cause to get behind in these areas.

Let the Democrats push this one. Coming from the Ron Paul campaign, it just appears desperate.

I have no objection if an individual tries to get an emergency temporary restraining order or whatever legal action is appropriate, but I think it won't help us to do petitions and publicity campaigns that appear to come from the Ron Paul camp.

You can't expect the GOP to know what to do without a court ruling.

IMissLiberty

McCain is more than likely legal..I can't believe he could have gotten this far if he weren't...If he isn't expect Romney to step up and not huckleberry

One thing I hope he changes his mind on. Basing citizenship on the land instead of a governmental/political definition is more objective and less prone to confusion and corruption.

I think you would have to challenge his ballot access for the november elections.

any other thoughts on this.

Does anyone know of any constitutional lawyers to review this

Whatever happened to the whole Obama/Hawaii thing?

The claim that the mccain people say is that John was born on a military facility and makes him a naturally born citizen.

So are they right or wrong?

Does this make john mccain a naturally born citizen or a naturalized citizen of the US? Congress alone makes laws for naturalization. But without an ammendment to the US constitution they, nor the supreme court can change this limitation from John McCain from running.

So It comes down to the story of John's birth on an alledged navy based in the panama canal as being in the US.

This is the only way for him to run. If all military bases in the world allow children born of two parents to gain automatic naturally born citizenship then he is fine. But if they just say the person is a citizen, or a naturalized citizen, then he cannot run. He can not be shown favoritism in the law. Since all would suffer from this issue he would have to be made an example.

This obviously brings up the need to review the constitution for running for president.

I don't read too good, but you might want to run the proclamation by him first to make sure it passes.....then send it out in all directions.

Thanks for taking the time to do this.

sounds like congress and supreme court have to get involved...after reading all this ..one has to wonder how this affects illegal immigration rulings and focus shift.

Can one be tied to the other?

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...

who is arguing that he IS eligible to the following thread---the whole thread:

http://www.dailypaul.com/...

:D

now.

http://elections.foxnews....

Lindsay Graham is whining about it already.

I really love a good debate.

I know that this does not seem like a fair argument but it is the law of the land.

And many of us who are party officials, swear an oath to defend the Constitution. And letting McCain run for President weakens the Constitution.

People are not able to make a distinction between the two forms of citizenship. I think this is because emotions are involved instead of logic. Put the emotion aside. This is one way we are all manipulated.

The first way to become a citizen is by birth on US soil as defined by the Constitution. This is a "natural born citizen". No Congressional law can overturn/change this. The only way to change it is with a Constitutional amendment.

The second way to become a citizen is through Congressional law. This makes you a "naturalized citizen", not a "natural born citizen".

Only a "natural born citizen" may be President as required by the US Constitution. Interesting enough, this is the only office in the Constitution that has this requirement.

McCain was not born in the US, thus he cannot be President of the US.

This logic is very simple.

We as Americans need to stand for the rule of law and the Constitution. Take this to your state Party and free up those delegates to vote for someone who is eligible to be President.

If you want to read a more detailed explanation of the law, see the following:

http://muddythoughts.blog...

Ron Paul is not making this claim. I doubt very much whether he supports this line of thinking.

Free and Brave
or Cradle to Grave
You can't have both

8 USC 1401(a) -- which precedes and supercedes 8 USC 1403(a) states:

"a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than five years, at least two of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years: Provided, That any periods of honorable service in the Armed Forces of the United States, or periods of employment with the United States Government or with an international organization as that term is defined in section 288 of title 22 by such citizen parent, or any periods during which such citizen parent is physically present abroad as the dependent unmarried son or daughter and a member of the household of a person"

As is the prerogative of the US congress to determine citizenship/naturalization rules. (14th amendment -- "The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.")

8 USC 1403 is intended to fill in the gaps for a handful of us citizens in PCZ whose parents, say, had lived their entire life in the PCZ. Even so, 8 USC 1403 does not use the languate "natural-born" leaving that to interpretation.