Thread: Neither Cruz nor Rubio are Natural Born citizens

What about our 21st President Chester Arthur?

He was never elected President. He became President through the assassination of Garfield, and did not run for re-election.

Originally Posted by MontereySherry

What about our 21st President Chester Arthur?

Birth and family[edit]

Chester Alan Arthur was born October 5, 1829, in Fairfield, Vermont.^[a][7] Arthur's mother, Malvina Stone, was born in Vermont, the daughter of George Washington Stone and Judith Stevens. Malvina's family was primarily of English descent, and her grandfather, Uriah Stone, fought in the Continental Army during the American Revolution.^[7]

His father, William Arthur, was born in Dreen, Cullybackey, County Antrim, in what is now Northern Ireland; he graduated from college in Belfast and emigrated to Canada in 1819 or 1820.

Arthur's mother met his father while William Arthur was teaching at a school in Dunham, Quebec, just over the border from her native Vermont.

The two married in Dunham on April 12, 1821, soon after meeting.^[7] After their first child, Regina, was born, the Arthurs moved to Vermont. They quickly moved from Burlington to Jericho, and finally to Waterville, as William received positions teaching at different schools.^[7]

William Arthur also spent a brief time working to join the legal profession. While still in Waterville, William departed from his legal studies, as well as his Presbyterian upbringing, to join the Free Will Baptists, spending the rest of his life as a minister in that sect.^[7]

William became an outspoken abolitionist, which often made him unpopular with members of his congregations and contributed to the family's frequent moves.^[8] In 1828, the family moved again, to Fairfield, where Chester Alan Arthur was born the following year; he was the fifth of nine children.^[9][10]

He was named "Chester" after Chester Abell, the physician and family friend who assisted in his birth, and "Alan" for his paternal grandfather.^[b]

The family remained in Fairfield until 1832, when William's profession took them on the road again, to several towns in Vermont and upstate New York. The family finally settled in the Schenectady, New York, area.^[11]

The family's frequent moves later spawned accusations that Chester Arthur was not a native-born citizen of the United States.

When Arthur was nominated for vice president in 1880, a New York attorney and political opponent, Arthur P. Hinman, initially speculated that Arthur was born in Ireland and did not come to the United States until he was fourteen years old.

Had that been true, opponents might have argued that Arthur was constitutionally ineligible for the vice presidency under the United States Constitution's natural-born-citizen clause.^[12][c][13]

When Hinman's original story did not take root, he spread a new rumor that Arthur was born in Canada. This claim, too, failed to gain credence.^[13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_A._Arthur

The Republicans at their nominating convention can write rules to who is eligible to be nominated. They can make any rule they want to. And they can say in the nominating convention that they will only accept Natural Born Citizens as Presidential candidates. There is no law that says they can't do that.

This doesn't take the courts or anything. Use Original Intent, the original meaning and apply that. Born on soil to both parents who are US Citizens.

Originally Posted by Clinias

The Republicans at their nominating convention can write rules to who is eligible to be nominated. They can make any rule they want to. And they can say in the nominating convention that they will only accept Natural Born Citizens as Presidential candidates. There is no law that says they can't do that.

This doesn't take the courts or anything. Use Original Intent, the original meaning and apply that. Born on soil to both parents who are US Citizens.

They COULD. But they won't.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

They COULD. But they won't.

We need to start passing this around then. We need to start telling republicans everywhere, that we must obey the Natural Born citizen clause at the Nominating Convention. No candidate will be considered unless they conform to the Original Intent of the Constitution!