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Is Barack Obama eligible to be President?

Is his birth certificate a forgery?

Does it take two citizen parents to be eligible to be President?

If you’re interested in finding out the truth, you’re in the right place. Here’s a guide to the tons of useful information you’ll find here. The content can be divided up as follows:

• Conclusions Regarding the Claims of the Birther Movement
• Presidential Eligibility and the Meaning of “Natural Born Citizen”
  • Legal Authorities and Case Law
  • Historical Authorities
  • Discussion and Debate
  • News
• The Obama Birth Certificate Forgery Theories

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Conclusions Regarding the Claims of the Birther Movement

Overall Conclusions on the Birther Movement Claims:

• The Bottom Line Regarding Barack Obama’s Eligibility to Be President, the Meaning of “Natural Born Citizen,” and the Birther Movement
• “Birther’s Digest:” A List of Obama Ineligibility Claims — With Their Status

On the Forgery Theories:

• • Genuine, World-Class Computer Expert Evaluates Obama’s Birth Certificate PDF
  • Statement Regarding Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s July 17, 2012 Press Conference: Part 1
  • Exposed: Sheriff Joe Arpaio Birther Scam — Here’s the Proof that Arpaios Posse Fabricated Evidence and Lied to the Nation
  • Exclusive! “Hawaii Girl” Confirms Her Parents’ Race — and I Crack the Actual Entries, Confirming that Arpaio’s Codes Don’t Match the Hawaii Codes, Either.
  • The Arpaio Posse’s Fatally Flawed “Analysis” of Barack Obama’s Birth Certificate

• On the Release of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s [March 2012] Report Stating that Barack Obama’s Birth Certificate is a “Forgery”

Presidential Eligibility and the Meaning of “Natural Born Citizen”

Legal Authorities and Case Law

US v Wong Kim Ark:

• In US v. Wong Kim Ark, the Supreme Court Set a Binding Precedent as to Who Is a Natural Born Citizen

Minor v Happersett:

• Minor v Happersett and “Natural Born Citizen”
• Minor v Happersett Gave No “Definition” for “Natural Born Citizen.”
• Plain English Says the Supreme Court in Minor v Happersett Never Claimed That Citizen Parents Are Required to Make a “Natural Born Citizen.”
• The Supreme Court in Minor v Happersett Never Claimed That Citizen Parents Are Required to Make a “Natural Born Citizen.”
• At Least One Court Has Very Specifically Ruled that Minor v Happersett Says No Such Thing as What Birthers Claim.

Elk v Wilkins:

• Tracy Fair, Chester A. Arthur, Elk v Wilkins, and Natural Born Citizenship

Lynch v Clarke:

• Evidence Found that American Common Law Defined Whether a Child Born on US Soil of Non-Citizen Parents Was a Natural Born Citizen! (Lynch v Clarke, 1844)

American Common Law:

• A Search for the Legal Evidence that American Common Law Defined “Natural Born Citizen” as a Person Born on US Soil of Two Citizen Parents.
• Natural Born Citizenship and the “Law of Nations”
• What the Writers on the Law of Nations Had to Say Relevant to Natural Born Citizenship (Summarizes the Legal Evidence, Except for Additional Evidence from the Lynch v Clarke Article Listed Below)
• Evidence Found that American Common Law Defined Whether a Child Born on US Soil of Non-Citizen Parents Was a Natural Born Citizen! (Lynch v Clarke, 1844)

Zephaniah Swift:

• America’s First Legal Text Reveals Meaning of “Natural Born Citizen”

St. George Tucker:

• Birther Bust Bombshell: Prominent Legal Expert St. George Tucker DIRECTLY Refutes Mario Apuzzo’s Crank Natural Born Citizen Claim

Horace Binney:

• Horace Binney Directly Refutes the Mario Apuzzo/ Leo Donofrio Lie that it Takes Two Citizen Parents to Make a Natural Born Citizen

Historical Authorities

The Natural Law Origin of “Natural Born Citizen:”

• Natural Law, Calvin’s Case, and the Meaning of “Natural Born Citizen”

The Historical Meaning of “Natural Born Citizen”

• Part 1: Before the Constitution [up to 1787]
• Part 2: In the Early United States [1787–1825]
• Part 3: Antebellum America [1825–1860s]
• Part 4: The Civil War and Beyond [1862-1872]
• Part 5: The Supreme Court Speaks
• Part 6: The 20th Century and Today
• Part 7: Summary and Conclusion

Early Usages (early to late 1700s):

• Early Use of the Term “Natural Born Citizen”

Emer de Vattel (mid to late 1700s):

• Vattel and “Natural Born Citizen”

“Natural Born Subject” and “Natural Born Citizen” Used Synonymously by Massachusetts Legislature (late 1700s):

• Examples of Massachusetts Naturalization Acts

Was There a Conflict Between Alexander Hamilton’s Vision of Presidential Eligibility and John Jay’s? (Constitutional Convention, 1787)

• John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and the Mystery of the “Natural Born Citizen” Letter

Rep. John Bingham (mid 1800s):

• An Open Letter to Helen Tansey, Director of Article II Super PAC, on the Views of Rep. John Bingham and the Meaning of “Natural Born Citizen”

Chester A Arthur (late 1800s):

• Tracy Fair, Chester A. Arthur, Elk v Wilkins, and Natural Born Citizenship

US Government Policy (late 1800s):

• US State Department Policy Relevant to Natural Born Citizenship in the 1880s and 1890s

Discussion and Debate

Why the Birthers Lost (Feb 2012)

An Open Letter to Mario Apuzzo (Feb 2012)

I Destroy MichaelN’s “Rebuttal” to the Open Letter to Mario Apuzzo (Feb 2012)

A wide-randing debate involving Mario Apuzzo, ehancock and John Woodman regarding Mario Apuzzo’s claims (March 2012, external link)

Laurie Roth AGAIN Ignores Reality to Repeat Disproven Claims of “Verified” “Total Forgery and Fraud”

The “Grandfather Clause” Regarding the “Natural Born Citizen” Requirement of the Constitution — Was It Ever Needed or Used? (October 2012)