Natural Born Citizen? Obama and the Fourth American Revolution, Part 1
Introduction
Old-stock Americans need to understand the metapolitical significance of the Presidential election in 2012. On a strict reading of the Constitution (i.e., in accordance with the “original intent” of the framers and as described more fully below), there can be little doubt that Barack Hussein Obama has never been eligible to the Office of President.
During the 2008 election campaign neither the GOP candidate Senator John McCain—whose own eligibility had been questioned as a consequence of his birth in Panama—nor the globalist mainstream media had the incentive or inclination to compel candidate Obama—so obviously a progressive and cosmopolitan citizen of the world—to establish that he is a natural born American citizen as required by Article II, section I of the Constitution.
But such negligent disregard for foundational constitutional norms is no longer surprising among political, corporate, and legal elites in the United States. Already in the early Eighties, when I was a graduate student at Harvard Law School, such formalistic constraints were being reduced to fossilized irrelevance. Decades of legal realism combined with the nascent critical legal studies movement to foster the legal amnesia implicit in the progressive ideal of the “living constitution.”
Three decades on, bien pensant contempt for “originalism” is even more deeply entrenched upon the commanding heights of the Constitutional Republic. We can be sure, therefore, that the apparently “unconstitutional” re-election of putative President Obama will not be a story of politics as usual. It will mark instead yet another momentous turning point in American constitutional history; namely, the inauguration of the Fourth (Transnational) Republic. Read more







