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To: BP2
“No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President…”

A comma has been added after the word "States."

3 posted on 12/03/2008 11:50:20 PM PST by thesetruths
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To: thesetruths

wouldn’t a strict interpretation say that the founders were dealing with the situation of citizenship at the time that the constitution was adopted? In other words they were not thinking about 200 years later


10 posted on 12/04/2008 12:00:01 AM PST by woofie
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To: thesetruths
A comma has been added after the word "States."

Damn, you're good!

22 posted on 12/04/2008 12:23:34 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: thesetruths

kinda funny the attempt there to alter our constitution.

funny because it doesn’t help their cause — instead, by placement of the comma there, it requires all US presidents to have been alive at the time of the adoption of the Constitution.


129 posted on 12/04/2008 4:55:54 AM PST by kpp_kpp
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To: thesetruths

Squirreled away in my closet are some (supposedly) high-quality photocopies of several documents including the Constitution. That comma is in the original too. It hasn’t been added as far as I can tell. If I knew how to do it, I’d scan that section and post it here but I have to plead techno-ignorance as my defense.


276 posted on 12/04/2008 9:40:59 AM PST by oldfart (Obama nation = abomination. Think about it!)
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To: thesetruths

a comma creates a whole different meaning, doesn’t it?


375 posted on 12/04/2008 2:16:57 PM PST by SerafinQ
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