We have obtained a copy of the talking points memorandum put out by a lawyer for the Congressional Research Service to the Members of Congress back in April 2009 as to what to tell their constituents when they write to the Members of Congress and ask questions about Obama's eligibility. Now we know why all the answers coming back to constituents sounded like they were written by the same person and were full of the same obfuscations and half truths and non-truths... [bla bla]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/41131059/Memb ... -Questions

We have obtained a copy of the talking points memorandum put out by a lawyer for the Congressional Research Service to the Members of Congress back in April 2009 as to what to tell their constituents when they write to the Members of Congress and ask questions about Obama's eligibility.

Look what Mario Apuzzo got hold of. 'Members of Congress Internal Memo--What to Tell Your Constituents in Answer to Obama Eligibility...'

Apparently a 'Bob 1943' got it from 'a Sentaor's office'.


http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2010/11/membe ... -tell.html

'Course, Tes and Sternie and some folks will tell us if Jack made any mistakes, like they do.

The Congressional Research Service is a non-partisan office with about 900 employees.

Building upon a concept developed by the New York State Library in 1890, and the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Library in 1901, they were motivated by Progressive era ideas

born "in" the United States

citizen "at birth"

With respect to requests to "evaluate" evidence of a foreign birth

the only "official" documentation

the narrow "common law"

"naturalization"

"common understanding" of a group

Bob1943 says:
Friday, October 29, 2010 at 9:09 AM
A few days ago I was sent, from Senator Lincoln’s office, a 14-page document from Congressional Research Service, titled “Qualifications for the Office of President of the United States and Legal Challenges to the Eligibility of a Candidate”. It is a “memo” from Jack Maskell, Legislative Attorney, American Law Division.

I have yet to find this document at this website:

http://opencrs.com/

It has my BS meter pegged. In particular how many terms are in quotation marks within the text of the memo that aren't foot-noted like whoever's writing is doing repeated airquotes and emphasizing terms that are classic birther terminology. I find it quite odd>

This report is termed "Members of Congress Internal Memo" by those citing it. CRS maintains an "Open CRS" collection of CRS "Reports for the People," and this internal memo is not included -- as would be expected. I have no idea whether CRS itself is authorized to confirm the existence of this memo or is prohibited from doing so. A Member could authorize CRS to put this document into Open CRS.

An external test of its provenance would involve determining if an agency that has traditionally done high-quality research, with full citations, would have produced this report. If the report has fundamental flaws, it is highly unlikely to have come from CRS.

Despite the absence of any formal administrative or legal requirement or oversight at the federal level, or
specific state requirement to produce a birth certificate for ballot placement, it may be noted here briefly that the only "official" documentation or record that has been presented in the matter of President Obama's eligibility has been an official, certified copy of the record of live birth released by the Obama campaign in June of 2008, as an apparent effort by then-candidate Obama to address rumors and innuendos concerning the place of his birth.

I ran the OCR feature in Adobe and got the following results:

Word count for "Blackstone" = 9
Word count for "Vattel" = 0

Here's where the document was first mentioned. In the comments at the P&E

Congressional Candidacy, Incarceration, and the
Constitution’s Inhabitancy Qualification
Summary
The issue of whether one is permitted to run for and hold office in the House of
Representatives either after a felony conviction, and/or while incarcerated in prison,
specifically involves a question of the qualifications, or disqualifications, to be a
Representative in Congress. There are three, and only three “positive” qualifications
for Representative in Congress set out in the United States Constitution: (1) age (25
years); (2) citizenship (7 years); and (3) inhabitancy

Status of a Member of the House Who Has Been
Indicted for or Convicted of a Felony
Summary
There are no federal statutes or Rules of the House of Representatives that
directly affect the status of a Member of Congress who has been indicted for a crime
that constitutes a felony. No rights or privileges are forfeited under the Constitution,
statutory law, or the Rules of the House merely upon an indictment for an offense,
prior to an establishment of guilt under the judicial system. Thus, under House
Rules, an indicted Member may continue to participate in congressional proceedings
and considerations; under the Constitution, a person under indictment is not
disqualified from being a Member of or a candidate for re-election to Congress.
Internal party rules in the House, however, now require an indicted chairman or
ranking Member of a House committee, or a member of the House party leadership,
to temporarily step aside from his or her leadership or chairmanship position.