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You said that I only cited liberal democrats law review articles on Minor v. Happersett.
No, I said that you specifically included only Democrats/liberals and their law review articles on presidential eligibility. You were even kind enough to give the names of the authors.

Let's review that reply...

IINM,since the 1960’s, no law review article on Presidential eligiblity (Gordon, Lohman, Pryer, Medina) have cited Minor as precedent for NBC.
(@Gordon, @Lohman, @Pryer (sp), @Medina) Funny that, that you would specifically include only Democrats/liberals.

The rest are attempts to allow naturalized citizens to be eligible to the Presidency, they are currently excluded.
Yeah, I guess being more subtle was a necessity after being busted the first time trying to do it.

Those don’t try to change the definition of “natural born citizen”.
While technically true, it nevertheless tries to undermine the intent of the Founding Fathers which was avoiding foreign influence in the office of POTUS.

Good effort. Yours is the first answer that even attempts to answer the question.

“Yeah, I guess being more subtle was a necessity after being busted the first time trying to do it.”

Your are ascribing motives that may or may not be there.

The first several attempts (Bingham, Synder, Conyers) were all attempts to allow naturalized citizens to be President.

BTW, I read some time ago that the first attempts to change Presidental eligiblity occurred in the early 1800’s, I’ll try to locate that reference.

Have a good weekend.

I thought I was out for the weekend but...

This may interest you:

"But Bruce Ledewitz, a professor for the Duquesne University School of Law for over 30 years, is not convinced.

"It doesn't matter," Ledewitz said. "Since the 1870s, we've treated people born here as citizens ... That's been the understanding."

Ledewitz was asked if Barchfeld's argument over the "natural born citizens" aspect holds any water.

"No," Ledewitz said. "And I'm not speaking about whether he's a good president or a bad president or anything else. It's just accepted law that people born in the United States are natural-born citizens. That's just been the understanding for a long time.

"It has nothing to do with Obama you understand. If you were born here, you're a natural-born citizen."

http://baldwin-whitehall.patch.com/articles/whitehall-man-is-aiming-to-remove-obama-from-pa-ballot#photo-8080552