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2nd Amended Complaint - Craig v. United States
2nd Amended Complaint - Craig v. United States
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Steven Lee Craig
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1309 Hisel Rd . )
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Del City , Oklahoma 73115 )
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Plaintiff
) Case No. Civ-09-0343-F
Vs. )
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The United States of America )
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C/o U.S. Attorney ) 10th Circuit 09-6082
Washington, D.C. )
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Defendant )
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PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
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The United States District Court
For Western District of Oklahoma
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For Western District of Oklahoma
their coming to the years of discretion,
they may renounce their right, and what
they owe to the society in which they were
born. I say, that, in order to be of the
country, it is necessary that a person be
born of a father who is a citizen; for, if
he is born there of a foreigner, it will
be only the place of his birth, and not
his country.”
Volume 3: § 1473.
“It is indispensable, too, that the
president should be a natural born citizen
of the United States; or a citizen at the
adoption of the constitution, and for
fourteen years before his election. This
permission of a naturalized citizen to
become president is an exception from the
great fundamental policy of all
governments, to exclude foreign influence
from their executive councils and duties.
It was doubtless introduced
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passage,
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For Western District of Oklahoma
“…for it has now become by lapse of time
merely nominal, and will soon become
wholly extinct…”
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For Western District of Oklahoma
The Debates in the Several State
Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal
Constitution
[Elliot's debates,Volume4]Seamen's Bill.--
For the Regulation of Seamen on Board the
Public Vessels, and in the Merchant
Service of the United States.
House of Representatives, February, 1813.
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parents.
A. Bingham, wrote,
circumstances be examined.
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For Western District of Oklahoma
to 28 U.S.C. §1343 (a)(4), and/or, § 1346 (a)(2),
and/or § 1357
§ 1331.
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1391(e)(3).
III. PARTIES
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FACTUAL ALLEGATIONS
length.
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protection.
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For Western District of Oklahoma
“The language and history of the Ninth
Amendment reveal that the Framers of the
Constitution believed that there are
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additional fundamental rights, protected
from governmental infringement, which
exist alongside those fundamental rights
specifically mentioned in the first eight
constitutional amendments. . . .
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For Western District of Oklahoma
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Naturalizing of new Citizens, thereby deprives and
Constitution.
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within any and all the Acts, Bills, Laws, Rules and
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which in many circumstances calling for
its exertion would be but a futility."
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Naturalization Laws.
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seemed inconsistent with others, some
problems of growing importance had emerged
that Congress had left unheeded. At the
request of the House Committee on
Immigration and Naturalization, see 86
Cong.Rec. 11943, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt established a Committee composed
of the Secretary of State, [p53] the
Attorney General and the Secretary of
Labor to review the nationality laws of
the United States, to recommend revisions
and to codify the nationality laws into
one comprehensive statute for submission
to Congress; he expressed particular
concern about "existing discriminations"
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For Western District of Oklahoma
in the law. Exec.Order No. 6115, Apr. 25,
1933…”
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This punishment is offensive to cardinal
principles for which the Constitution
stands. It subjects the individual to a
fate of ever-increasing fear and distress.
He knows not what discriminations may be
established against him, what
proscriptions may be directed against him,
and when and for what cause his existence
in his native land may be terminated. He
may be subject to banishment, a fate
universally decried by civilized people.
He is stateless, a condition deplored in
the international community of
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democracies. It is no answer to suggest
that all the disastrous consequences of
this fate may not be brought to bear on a
stateless person. The threat makes the
punishment obnoxious. [n36]
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For Western District of Oklahoma
… When it appears that an Act of Congress
conflicts with one of these provisions, we
have no choice but to enforce the
paramount commands of the Constitution. We
are sworn to do no less. We cannot push
back the limits of the Constitution merely
to accommodate challenged legislation. We
must apply those limits as the
Constitution prescribes them, bearing in
mind both the broad scope of legislative
discretion and the ultimate responsibility
of constitutional adjudication. We do well
to approach this task cautiously, as all
our predecessors have counseled. But the
ordeal of judgment cannot be shirked. “
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For Western District of Oklahoma
1. An immediate Order of Declaratory Judgement
2. Entry of Judgment
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Steven Lee Craig
1309 Hisel Rd .
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