The Trump has a plan, and thoughts on Calvin Coolidge.
Donald Trump expressed a view point today that seems very controversial on the surface. In fact, there are many false interpretations of the 14th amendment that can all be traced back, not to the amendment, but to a footnote on a Supreme Court ruling. Here is the relevant part from the Fourteenth Amendment, Section 1:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside."
In US vs Wong Kim Ark, an interpretive footnote was added using English Common Law as a reference. In defiance of the intent of the writers. (shocking, I know) the court determined that by simply being born in the US was enough to be a citizen, take that and then compare what Rep John Bingham-OH, who wrote the amendment, said about the introduction:
"I find no fault with the introductory clause, which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that 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." (emphasis added)
The Donald simply referred to the original intent by stating that those born to immigrants, legal or illegal, are not citizens as defined in the 14th amendment.
I read that there is a thought that it would require a new amendment to change. No, it would simply require a leader with the willingness to enforce the Constitution. That is why Donald spoke the way he did.
Calvin Coolidge was probably the last Lassez-Faire President to date. Don't bother business, don't give them advantage, and the economy will work itself out. It was only when government got into the business of business, picking winners and losers that the income gap has ballooned, and that it became that much harder for people to "make it". Businesses didn't have to buy influence then. or not to the extent that they do now. I would encourage all to read about the last true common man president. Sworn in by his father who was a Notary Public in Vermont on hearing the news of the death of President Harding, he was truly a man of the people, who led by example.
Trump simply was a business man, doing what is necessary in the world created by progressives, in the name of helping the weakest, protecting us from ourselves. Remember, that in the economic cycle there are booms and busts. Take away the booms, by re-distributing wealth, and you are only left with the busts, or as Silent Cal, as President Coolidge was known, would say "Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong."
I am not supporting the Donald yet, but waiting to see. He did introduce a beginnings of a plan to deal with immigration. I really wish the Republicans were not making the Democrat Nominee's commercials for them, but they can't help themselves.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside."
In US vs Wong Kim Ark, an interpretive footnote was added using English Common Law as a reference. In defiance of the intent of the writers. (shocking, I know) the court determined that by simply being born in the US was enough to be a citizen, take that and then compare what Rep John Bingham-OH, who wrote the amendment, said about the introduction:
"I find no fault with the introductory clause, which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that 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." (emphasis added)
The Donald simply referred to the original intent by stating that those born to immigrants, legal or illegal, are not citizens as defined in the 14th amendment.
I read that there is a thought that it would require a new amendment to change. No, it would simply require a leader with the willingness to enforce the Constitution. That is why Donald spoke the way he did.
Calvin Coolidge was probably the last Lassez-Faire President to date. Don't bother business, don't give them advantage, and the economy will work itself out. It was only when government got into the business of business, picking winners and losers that the income gap has ballooned, and that it became that much harder for people to "make it". Businesses didn't have to buy influence then. or not to the extent that they do now. I would encourage all to read about the last true common man president. Sworn in by his father who was a Notary Public in Vermont on hearing the news of the death of President Harding, he was truly a man of the people, who led by example.
Trump simply was a business man, doing what is necessary in the world created by progressives, in the name of helping the weakest, protecting us from ourselves. Remember, that in the economic cycle there are booms and busts. Take away the booms, by re-distributing wealth, and you are only left with the busts, or as Silent Cal, as President Coolidge was known, would say "Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong."
I am not supporting the Donald yet, but waiting to see. He did introduce a beginnings of a plan to deal with immigration. I really wish the Republicans were not making the Democrat Nominee's commercials for them, but they can't help themselves.
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