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To: Non-Sequitur

I’m not talking about Obama. I am talking about the US and our constitution.

It is very dangerous to allow the constitution to be amended the way you suggest.

I don’t know if you just can’t understand this or if you are blinded by your unconditional love for Obama.

EVERY TERM IN THE CONSTITUTION (for purposes of the constitution) MEANS WHAT EVER IT MEANT FROM THE BEGINNING UNLESS OR UNTIL IT IS RE-DEFINED BY CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.

There might be argument on the original definition of a term, but your claim that congress can change definitons of constitutional terms is ridiculous!


520 posted on 01/07/2010 2:37:46 PM PST by candeee
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To: candeee

when there is no definition of an original term in any legal system, the law inevitably fills in the gap. They don’t just do it on a whim, and that becomes what it meant. I don’t see a single competent legal source outside the core birther community who has any doubt that Obama is a NBC. That would seem to include Chief Justice Roberts, who swore Obama in and presumably knows something about the Constitution.


521 posted on 01/07/2010 2:47:04 PM PST by tired_old_conservative
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To: candeee
It is very dangerous to allow the constitution to be amended the way you suggest.

Again, the Constitution is not being amended because the definition of natural-born citizen is not found in it. You can't amend something that isn't there to begin with.

I don’t know if you just can’t understand this or if you are blinded by your unconditional love for Obama.

One can always tell when you Birthers are foaming at the mouth. You accuse your opponents of being Obama supporters. The fact is that we're merely supporters of the law, the Constitution, and the judiciary. Obama has nothing to do with it. I guarantee you that if Bobby Jindal were to run for president I and the rest of us you all call Obamanoids and trolls would be making the very same arguments and fighting the very same fallacies that you Birthers would be throwing at him. Because it's what's right that is important, not who the individual is.

EVERY TERM IN THE CONSTITUTION (for purposes of the constitution) MEANS WHAT EVER IT MEANT FROM THE BEGINNING UNLESS OR UNTIL IT IS RE-DEFINED BY CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

THEN TELL US WHERE THE CONSTITUTION DEFINES NATURAL-BORN CITIZEN.

There might be argument on the original definition of a term, but your claim that congress can change definitons of constitutional terms is ridiculous!

And your continued claim that the Congress is somehow doing so by defining by law who is a natural-born citizen and who is not is even more ridiculous.

536 posted on 01/07/2010 4:05:26 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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