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CHESTER ALAN ARTHUR
21st President of the United States (1830 – 1886)
Term: September 20, 1881 – March 3, 1885
Chester Arthur was the first President to have his citizenship challenged.
Chester Arthur, “I may be President of the United States, but my private life is nobody’s damned business.”
AMERICA’S TWO UNCONSITUTIONAL PRESIDENTS
Dianna Cotter, Portland Examiner
Dec. 14, 2009
Students of history know that history repeats itself, and today we are reliving the past of 1880’s. Some of the similarities between the 21st President and the 44th are startling, and the ramifications are huge.
President Chester A. Arthur was the son of an Irish immigrant, William Arthur, and Vermonter, Malvina Stone. Arthur would tragically assume the Presidency upon the assassination of President Garfield in 1881 and become the 21st President. President Arthur was successful in keeping the secret of his heritage, and he died shortly after leaving the White House November 18, 1886. He served honorably and well as President of the United States, but was not Constitutionally Qualified for the Office of either Vice President or President, and set a precedent by which it would happen again.
During the campaign of 1880, questions were asked about Chester’s birth place, but just as today, those doing the research were looking in the wrong direction. Arthur’s father, William Arthur was a British citizen at the time of the future President’s birth. Born in Ballymena, Ireland in 1796 he would not become a Naturalized citizen until August 31st, 1843. No one ever checked into his immigration status at the time of his son’s birth. Chester Arthur, 14 at the time his father was naturalized, and would surely have known this. Sound somewhat familiar?
WILLIAM ARTHUR NATURALIZATION
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, “Chester Alan Arthur Papers”. Microfiche Copy courtesy of Leo Donofrio Esq.
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Chester Arthur Naturalization of father
Document Transcription by Bridgette
Certificate of Naturalization
State of New York Official Seal
County of WafhingtonI Edward Dodd clerk of the court of common pleas of the said county, hereby certify that at a term of the said court held in and for the said county before the Judges thereof at the court house in the town of Salem on the 31st day of August 1843 William Arthur personally appeared in the said and having in all respects complied with the laws of Congress on the subject of naturalization was then and there by the said court admitted and declared to be and became a Citizen of the United States.
Given under my hand and the seal
of the said county this 31st day of
August, 1843Edward Dodd Clerk
E11,6202
Notes on Transcription:
1. “f” is used in place of an s in Washington
2. The first letter next to the numbers at the bottom of the page is in question
3. Bleeding through the paper are three words, Certificate of Naturalization.
This document and its relevance have only recently been discovered. The President himself would not help matters any, he burned nearly all of his records and papers before he died in Nov. 1886, a year and a half after leaving office.
A lawyer and scholar by the name of George D. Collins Esq. wrote an article regarding citizenship during Arthur’s term, that had the President seen it, would have concerned him. “Are Persons born Within the United States Ipso Facto Citizens thereof?” was published in the American Law Review in Sept. /Oct. 1884. Collins thesis reverberates through history: “… are persons born within the United States, whose fathers at the time of such birth were aliens, citizens there of?” Collins relies on two sources in particular for his answer.
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” -14th Amendment
He also draws upon “The Law of Nations” by Emerich Vattel written in 1758, on which the U.S. Constitution was largely based. Collins states in his article, the term “jurisdiction thereof” means “not subject to any foreign power”, citing Section 1992 in Section 1 of the new 14th Amendment. He quotes Vattel:
The native or natural citizens are those born in the country of parents who are citizens. As the society can not exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers and succeed to all their rights. The society is supposed to desire this in consequence of what it owes to its own preservation, and it is presumed as a matter of course that each citizen on entering into society reserves to his children the right of becoming members of it. -Vattel
Collins concludes:
Birth, therefore, does not ipso facto confer citizenship, and it is essential in order that a person be a native or natural born citizen of the United States, that his father be at the time of the birth of such person a citizen thereof, or in the case he be illegitimate, that his mother be a citizen thereof at the time of such birth. – Collins
Had Collins known that President Arthur’s father was not a naturalized citizen at the time of Arthur’s birth, he would have correctly concluded that the President was not a natural born citizen and not eligible for the office. It was considered a matter of National security; the Commander in Chief should not be subject to any foreign power, and for that reason the “natural born” distinction is made.
Today, a direct and startlingly similar situation exists between President Arthur and President Obama. The 44th President was also born to a British citizen, not a naturalized citizen of the United States. For the same reasons both Presidents were not eligible for the office, the only difference lay in Barack Obama’s public admission of his father’s status:
When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children.
Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4,1982. -Fight the Smears
(Correction: The President’s website has not been updated to include the information that his Kenyan Citizenship did not actually expire until 1984. The site misconstrued the Kenyan law, and FactCheck.org was forced to give credit for the correction to Leo Donofrio Esq. This has direct implications with regard to the British Nationality Act of 1981 which went into effect in 1983. Because his Kenyan Citizenship was still in effect in 1983, Obama may still be a Kenyan Citizen. Neither the President nor any of his surrogates have addressed this issue. 12-21-2009 D. Cotter)
This quote illustrates four things very clearly. First, the President is the son of a British Kenyan. Second, his citizenship in Kenya expired in 1982, meaning that another country had a claim on the President from birth to 23 and he could choose to keep it as an adult. The third is unstated; the President’s British citizenship can still be formalized. The fourth issue it states very clearly. At birth, Barack Obama was subject to the power of a foreign nation, “The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children.” and therefore, he was not at any time a natural born citizen due to his triple nationality status, and he knows it.
The President has spent millions of dollars fighting various court cases across the country, not so much to keep his past hidden, but to keep people focused on what they think he is hiding. What is relevant is what he has admitted out in the open. The President at birth was an American citizen, a British citizen and a Kenyan citizen. At no time in his life has he ever been a natural born citizen of the United States. Barack Obama was a subject of two separate foreign powers in the instant of his birth.
Barack Obama has hidden the truth right in the open, it has never been an issue of where he was born, it was who he is the son of. A British, Kenyan National. In the instant when Citizenship is decided, birth, he was British, Kenyan, and American. By definition, a person cannot be a Natural Born Citizen of the United States of America while at the instant of their birth also being the citizen of any other Nation. A citizen? Yes, but not one that is solely native, solely natural, to the United States, and the United States alone.
The “President” has fought attempts to reveal his birth and other records. He has done so for the singular reason to keep people focused on what he is hiding, rather than the relevance of what he has admitted in the open. This is the relevance of Barack Obama’s Heritage.
Attorneys Leo Donofrio and Steve Pidgeon have been retained by a group of Chrysler dealers who lost their franchises in the Chrysler bankruptcy sale. Quo Warranto is one of 2 ways to remove a sitting President, and is being filed on behalf of the Auto Dealers who had their dealerships taken from them in the summer of 2009, and bankruptcy motion actions are being filed in the Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York. It is expected that as many as 50 to 100 Auto Dealers may join lead Plaintiff James Anderer in the suits.
History has been known to repeat itself, it remains to be seen if this repeat will leave an unqualified President in office or not.
http://www.examiner.com/x-7715-Portland-Civil-Rights-Examiner~y2009m12d14-Americas-Two-Unconstitutional-Presidents
Are Persons Born Within the United States Ipso Facto Citizens Thereof – George D. Collins
http://www.scribd.com/doc/19071886/Are-Persons-Born-Within-the-United-States-Ipso-Facto-Citizens-Thereof-George-D-Collins
14th Amendment Page 358
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=014/llsl014.db&recNum=389
Law of Nations Pg 101 Natural born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens.
http://books.google.com/books?id=z8b8rrzRc7AC&dq=vattel+law+of+Nations&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=nTgHS_rdKYeQsgPzy4zACQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBgQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Parents%20who%20are%20citizens&f=false
The Law of Nations For Parents who are Citizens
http://books.google.com/books?id=z8b8rrzRc7AC&dq=vattel+law+of+Nations&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=nTgHS_rdKYeQsgPzy4zACQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBgQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Parents%20who%20are%20citizens&f=false
Correction added by the author on 12/21/09:
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.5065/pub_detail.asp
Bridgette
itooktheredpill
Miri
newssleuth
We the People of the United States 
“Birth, therefore, does not ipso facto confer citizenship, and it is essential in order that a person be a native or natural born citizen of the United States, that his father be at the time of the birth of such person a citizen thereof, or in the case he be illegitimate, that his mother be a citizen thereof at the time of such birth.” – Collins
This is exactly why Obama and his wife deliberately obfuscate the issue of whether or not his parents were married. If he’s illegitimate, he’s natural born. If he’s not, he’s a British/Kenyan/American at birth–not a natural born citizen and thus not eligible to be POTUS (if you accept the claims he makes about his parents and birthplace).
From the story:
“This quote illustrates four things very clearly. First, the President is the son of a British Kenyan. Second, his citizenship in Kenya expired in 1982, meaning that another country had a claim on the President from birth to 23 and he could choose to keep it as an adult. The third is unstated; the President’s British citizenship can still be formalized. The fourth issue it states very clearly. At birth, Barack Obama was subject to the power of a foreign nation, “The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children.” and therefore, he was not at any time a natural born citizen due to his triple nationality status, and he knows it.”
Is swearing an oath of allegiance the only way to keep Kenyan citizenship in effect? This is another thing that Obama obfuscates. This may be why passport files were breached.
Nowhere in that statement does it say that Obama Sr. is the father of Obama Jr. Notice that Obama’s admission refers to Obama Sr.’s “children,” but not specifically to the man who is now POTUS. Why?
Obama admits in that statement, if you believe the statement is completely true, that Obama was born in Honolulu on 8/4/61 as a US citizen, that he also had Kenyan and presumably British citizenship, and that he didn’t swear an oath of allegiance to Kenya.
Finally, in a bill recently passed through Congress, there were provisions to “help” those dealers who lost out during the buyouts/bailouts of GM and Chrysler.
Are they helping the dealers or creating a situation where lawyers can argue that Donofrio’s case is “moot”? This would be similar to when they rescinded that soldier’s orders, when his eligibility case went forward in court: Case dismissed. Complaint moot. Covering for Obama.
Vote them ALL out. They have broken their oaths to the Constitution. They do not deserve to serve the American people. They serve a different master and it’s not the American people.
Interesting. Chester looks like Stanley Ann Dunham’s pictures alot to me, and Oprah and Obama look alike to me….Maybe I have baked too many holiday goodies the past few days and need a break ? Hummmm…Chester and Obama related ? Nahhhhh, it could never be could it ?
Why was Obama administered a second oath on January 21st with no audio and no Bible.
What are they hiding? What is the purpose of a 2nd Oath? Our Country was taken over on 1/20/09 with the Blessing of the Supreme Court.
How does Roberts qualify to be Chief Justice when he deliberately and purposefully administered the Oath of Office to a person who only has one American parent.
He surely knows that is a breach and dereliction.
What was the purpose of the second Oath and how could it ever come into play?
Why was Obama’s first Executive Order as POTUS to seal ALL OF HIS BONA FIDES forever?
What are they going to fill his Presidential Library with?
Our Supreme Court has betrayed us and NO ONE in our Country has standing to file suit or the wherewithal to confront the fact we have been Usurped by a person who is a professed communist?
STRIKE! April 15th 2010. Let’s show them what a Union looks like. Whistleblowers are protected against retaliation.
STRIKE! Close Shop until the SCOTUS justifies their defying our Constitution.
The fake Seal was criminal and tells us all we need to know. That hideous logo has yet to be explained. It appeared in a different form on Camp Obama websites as the unAmerican Shade of Blue was actually a Crescent Moon on his hidden sites.
His associates tell us who he is. He never even set foot on our Mainland until 1980 and then we went directly to the MiddleEast.
As a US Senator he campaigned for a Kenyan presidential contender and as a candidate and Senator went to Iraq and mandated they Shut up about the war until he was “installed”.
Terrorists being welcomed into our Country?
John Roberts has a lot to answer for.
Think. How are you going to react if there is another mass murder or hostage situation on our Homeland? What are you going to do that day? We need to know how we will unite should that day come and it is looming.
The POTUS is not an African-American. The biggest lie of all. How could he possibly be? He is a Sham.
He did nothing for anyone but his cronies in Chicago and he has abandoned his people there. Going to Hawaii for winter holiday? Really. There’s no place like home. What’s up with the Mansion there and when was the last time they visited their “home”?
Sickening. He’s in for one term. Who are the people in our Supreme Court presently? What are his future plans for that Body?
Leo Donofrio added information to his blog on the Chrysler lawsuit. It is fully captured on our thread Pending Lawsuits and Legislation in case he closes the blog again.
Analysis of December 14, 2009 US Supreme Court Decision Regarding Chrysler Sale.
ANALYSIS OF US SUPREME COURT’S RULING in POLICE PENSION TRUST, ET AL. V. CHRYSLER LLC, ET AL by Leo Donofrio, Esq.
Today’s SCOTUS ruling needed to be explained. Therefore, I have opened the blog up for this limited purpose. I do not anticipate publishing again until other court decisions are issued.
Leo C. Donofrio for the Law Office of Pidgeon and Donofrio
Miri
Assuming his parents weren’t married at the time of his birth,
1. Affidavits submitted by Sr could be sufficient to establish paternity which would carry with it British citizenship ie not natural born;
2. Notwithstanding the above, there is still the question of the location of his birth,… If on “native” lands, it would not qualify as U S territory. ( one of the hospitals was on land within the Bishop Trust)
it was very strange to have the two oaths…. I would guess it had to do with his legal name. (and maybe his religion)
Today Orly sent a letter to the AG demanding a Quo Warranto…. We shall see how far that gets…
AOne: You could be very correct here. It may be that BHO Sr. was not named on the original bc, although if not somebody has a lot of ‘splainin’ to do; or perhaps the bc was changed when Soetoro adopted him.
It may be that BHO Sr. came to Hawaii when Obama was 10, in order to institute or re-institute his parental rights as father, perhaps to qualify Obama for a Kenyan-sponsored scholarship to Punahou, that very pricey prep school.
I don’t think he’s illegitimate, in the sense that no father was named on the original bc or that his parents weren’t married. If they weren’t, then again, many people have a lot of ‘splainin’ to do.
However, confusion serves his purpose in this instance to muddy the waters and make people speculate that perhaps he is illegitimate or, alternately, that it’s really not fair that someone with one citizen parent and one alien parent would be treated differently than an illegitimate child of one citizen parent and an unknown or unnamed father.
Alinsky methodology. Planned chaos. Deliberate obfuscation and prevarication.
I also agree with you about the native lands issue; however, it seems as if a person born on a native reservation on the mainland would be considered a natural born citizen, at least from some items that I’ve read recently, unless Hawaiian lands were treated differently. Do you know about the law or what was going on when Hawaii became a state?
We simply don’t know for sure WHERE he was born. Even if we accept Hawaii or Honolulu, we don’t know which hospital, if any.
What’s interesting is that his parents chose to marry in Maui (allegedly). Research on Hawaiian sovereign lands indicates that most of that island was considered native land. So why did they marry there, instead of in Honolulu, where they lived?
My guess about the two oaths is that the second was on the Koran. Seriously. I can see Roberts being PC enough to think that a president’s religion or preference for the oath is his own private business and that there’s nothing to preclude a second oath, or any reason for him to violate the privacy of this person who has been elected, despite that Roberts may have known that the man lied to the public about his religion, if he did lie.
Would this be a violation of Roberts’s oath if he knew only that the man prevaricated about his religion? Might Roberts think it made sense for Obama to hide his religion, given the mood of the country, and especially since we have no religious test for government office? It might be understandable for him to rationalize in this way, although if Obama is Muslim and he lied to the American people about his religion, that says all We the People need to know about the man. Taqquiya?
In the photo of the second oath barky is not swearing on anything. Just raising his eating hand.
Please ignore all the typos!!!!!
Wow this boggles the mind!
COMMISSIONER OPENLY ADMITS MACHINES IN ERIE COUNTY WERE PROGRAMED TO SWITCH VOTES
(Dec. 15, 2009) — The corruption in the New York Board of Elections would be laughable if it were on TV, but today at 1:00 PM the Board actually did certify the use of electronic voting machines which one commissioner admitted, during the meeting, had been found to switch the votes between candidates during the recent election!
AOne: it does boggle the mind but it explains a lot. This is why Obama was so confident that he’d win, and also why the Dems who are going with him are confident about next year. They WILL make sure all are re-elected. ACORN will help. It’s the Chicago way. They’ve been stealing elections at least since 1960.
Does anybody believe that the guy who just got elected mayor of Atlanta won fair and square? The white woman was way ahead in the polls, until the race-baiters came down and suddenly, voila! The polls tightened. Neck and neck on election day. Recount, but the black man squeeked through by 715 votes.
Nowadays, nearly every race ends up being neck and neck. ANYTHING to get the polls even, so when they execute the vote fraud, it’s believable, at least for the last-legs media.
I’m willing to bet there was fraud in that election.
I just put a reference to the guy chosen by O for a job..and he just happens to have worked for the company that made those well oiled voting machines that were used in the New York Special Election. He is well versed in the operational aspects of the voting machines made by the Sequoia company. It is under the tea party express post.
Weren’t these machines made in Venezuela?
I believe the company ownership had some connection to Venezuela. Found this: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/washington/29ballot.html?_r=1&ref=politics
Just a coincidence that there’s a chavista connection. Not to worry. Right?
Chavez’s Venezuela: Obama and Ayers
Why Does Venezuela Have Ties To Our Elections?
I wasn’t real sure where to post this, since this is a national policy concern, seemed like the best place.
Just read the below linked article at wnd.com. Military bloggers, including http://www.blackfive.net that I visit regularly to view our troops and veterans issues and thoughts, stopped posting updates in protest of an increasingly hostile environment within the military. The bloggers are urging their readers to contact your reps. in Congress and let them know whose side you are on!! Spread the word!!! We support our brave heroes and their right to voice their concerns and opinions with NO repercussions for speaking! While researching legal documents recently, one Federal court case exclaims: “…insistent nibbles…a pirahna can be as deadly as the shark.” With each slash against our God-given rights, we are led closer and closer to not having any rights at all! Speak now or forever lose the right to speak!
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=119201
God Bless the USA and all our brave heroes in the line of fire at this very moment, while we sit safe and snug in our homes. Pray, pray and pray some more!
Could someone in Admin. put the / between com and index to fix link? Thanx.
Done.
Thank you, RP. Merry Christmas to you and your family!!!
Thank you, Ga. Peach. Merry Christmas to you and your family, too!!
Please note the “Correction” paragraph added by the author on 12-21-09.
An interesting correction. Another reason why we must know without doubt what date he was born. Is his website actually correct? Was he perhaps born a few years before he claims? Would this be yet another reason why his kindergarten records went missing?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_A._Arthur