Leo Donofrio’s Recent Posts

Posted on February 24, 2011 by itooktheredpill

I’m very thankful that Leo Donofrio has returned to his blog and has not only re-published his earlier work, but added four new insightful and very important posts:

THE SCRUBBING OF AMERICA: How Professor Lawrence Solum Disgraced Himself To Protect Obama’s Eligibility.

BEWARE: Arizona Senate Bill 1308 Defines Dual Citizens As Natural Born Citizens.

SHAME ON THE STATE DEPARTMENT: The Mario Marroquin Story – How War Veterans and Other Citizens “Born In A House” Are Denied Passports Despite Having Birth Certificates.

Jeffrey Toobin Issued False Legal Statements to Anderson Cooper Regarding Vattel and the 14th Amendment.

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2 Responses to Leo Donofrio’s Recent Posts

skeeter says:

February 25, 2011 at 4:48 pm

What does “under the jurisdiction” mean in the Fourteenth Amendment?
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?col…
Congressional Globe, Senate, 39th Congress, 1st Session

If it means “all people contained in our borders,” then what was the point of including it? The Amendment would mean the same thing if it was omitted in that case.

So if it does NOT mean “all people contained in our borders,” then what does it mean?

If it excludes only diplomats, where are the words in the Fourteenth Amendment that say only diplomats are excluded?

If it excludes diplomats, why doesn’t it exclude ALL foreign citizens?
itooktheredpill says:

February 28, 2011 at 8:29 am

skeeter,

Thank you for your comment. Unfortunately, the link you provided is not functional.

Here is a link to the Congressional Globe, 1833-1873 : Index to 39th Congress, 1st Session. Within that index, you will find:

Constitution, …

joint resolution (H. R. No. 127) proposing an amendment to the, … 2530, 2636, 2798, 2869, 2890, 2914, 2938, 2961, 2984, 3010, 3026, 3135, 3178, 3237, 3349

remarks on the, by–

Mr. Conness … 2891, 2892

Mr. Cowan … 2890, 2891, 2899, 2900, 2987, 2988, 2989, 2990, 2991

Mr. Davis … 2918, 2919, 3041

Mr. Doolittle … 2892, 2893, 2895, 2896, 2897, 2900, 2901, 2914, 2915, 2916, 2917, 2918, 2942, 2943, 2944, 2984, 2985, 2986, 3040

Mr. Edmunds … 2944

Mr. Fessenden … 3010

Mr. Guthrie … 2899

Mr. Henderson … 2992, 3010, 3011, 3031, 3032, 3033, 3034, 3035, 3036

Mr. Hendricks … 2894, 2895, 2897, 2898, 2899, 2938, 2939, 2940, 2941, 2986, 2991, 2992, 2993, 3039, 3040

Mr. Howard … 2890, 2895, 2900, 2942, 3011, 3038, 3039

Mr. Howe–see Appendix.

Mr. Johnson … 2893, 2894, 2898, 2899, 2916, 2991, 3026, 3027, 3028, 3029, 3030, 3041

Mr. McDougall … 3030, 3031, 3038, 3041

Mr. Poland … 2961, 2962, 2963, 2964

Mr. Saulsbury … 2919, 2920, 2921

Mr. Sherman … 2899, 2942, 2986, 2987, 2992

Mr. Stewart … 2964, 2965

Mr. Trumbull … 2893, 2894, 2901, 2902

Mr. Van Winkle … 2897, 2898, 2900, 2941, 2942

Mr. Willey … 2918, 2919

Mr. Williams … 2897, 2944, 2991

Mr. Wilson … 2986, 2987

Mr. Yates … 3036, 3037, 3038

yeas and nays on the … 2869, 2897, 2899, 2900, 2921, 2942, 2986, 2991, 3040, 3041, 3042

Leo Donofrio notes the words of John Bingham(*), one of the people who drafted the 14th Amendment:

“…every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural-born citizen.”

Parents. Plural. Not one parent. Two. Two parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty. Mr. Bingham would know more about the intent of the drafters of the 14th Amendment than anyone alive today… seeing as how Mr. Bingham wrote the 14th Amendment.

(*) The Footnotes of the research at that link are:

[1]. Congressional Globe, 39th Congress (1866) pg. 2890 (view actual page)
[2]. Id. at 2893
[3]. Id. at 2895
[4]. Id. at 2893
[5]. Id. at 2897
[6]. Id. at 1291
[7]. James Madison on Rule of Naturalization, 1st Congress, Feb. 3, 1790.