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To: DiogenesLamp
If the requirements for President clearly said the President must be a man, would you pretend that it didn't, or simply bemoan the fact that it isn't up to the current standards of political correctness?

It does.

The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years

If the feminists are accurate in their contention that the use of the generalized masculine pronoun refers only to males rather than being inclusive of both males and females, then the President must be male.

71 posted on 12/29/2011 12:02:39 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan
That's a good one.

You do know the story of Lot and Sodom and Gomorrah is actually the story of a woman looking for husbands for her daughters, and if she doesn't succeed she'll be turned to stone and the girls will hop in the sack with the old man.

It's in there!

73 posted on 12/29/2011 12:20:15 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Sherman Logan
It does.

The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years

First let me say "well spotted".

Secondly, there are those that would argue the rules of English require the use of the Masculine pronoun when the gender is indeterminate. I personally think the founders fully intended that only males should be President, but given the state of our constitutional understanding nowadays, I have little doubt that Liberal Judges would argue that it is just an artifact of the rules of English, and that our "living constitution" can be warped to allow it.

If the feminists are accurate in their contention that the use of the generalized masculine pronoun refers only to males rather than being inclusive of both males and females, then the President must be male.

Yet I have no doubt that our modern supreme court would completely disregard original intent, and FORCE us to accept a female regardless of what the Constitution actually says. Now at this time I personally think the best man for President would be Sarah Palin, but it appears that we would need a constitutional amendment to fix this little snag.

The Constitution means what it meant in 1787, (unless amended) not what we would have it mean. Do you disagree?

76 posted on 12/29/2011 1:05:24 PM PST by DiogenesLamp (Partus sequitur Patrem)
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