Natural Born Citizen? Obama and the Fourth American Revolution, Part Two
The Sovereign People as Higher Law-Making Authority
For decades now, progressive constitutional scholars such as Professor Bruce Ackerman have long urged the Supreme Court to recognize the higher law-making voice of the sovereign people. Obama’s second term will provide the Court with the ideal opportunity to do just that; indeed, his entire life story reads as if it had been crafted as a hypothetical problem in a constitutional law examination on the natural born citizenship issue.
If the sovereign people decide that issue in Obama’s favour, the already threadbare claim that the American republic is a historic nation grounded in the shared blood, language, and culture of a homogeneous people will have lost its sole constitutional mooring.
Once the citizenship status of the President no longer matters, it is difficult to see how immigration patriots can object to the future extension of the political and civil rights now associated with citizenship to all immigrants, legal or illegal.
Birthers fear that Obama’s successful re-election amounts to a constitutional amendment by stealth. Many portray Obama’s putative Presidency as a criminal conspiracy.
But the campaign to re-elect Obama is much more than an undercover conspiracy to deceive the American people. Read more