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The courts are not the only entities empowered to deal with such a question. A committee of the House of Representatives could be authorized to conduct an investigation into the eligibility issue. The classic formulation of the Congressional role is Woodrow Wilson's, in his 1884 book Congressional Government:
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Yeah! So?...Do you serious think **that** will happen?
I have written to all my representatives on every level several times. Only one federal Senator, a Republican, has responded, and his letter was nothing but DNC and DOJ talking points.
I am DISGUSTED!
I read Prof Rice’s essay the other day, and it does bring ‘outside the box’ thought to this ongoing debate. If only there were enough members of the House with the courage to suggest, much less undertake, such an investigation.
Granted that my knowledge is limited, the one problem I see is that, while Congress can and should investigate, they can’t interpret the language of the Constitution. They can’t interpret the phrase “Natural Born citizen” as understood and intended by the Framers That interpretation is, as I understand it, reserved to the Supreme Court.
So, let’s say (fantasize) that Congress conducted an investigation, and Obama turned over his long form birth certificate. Let’s say it proved that he was born in HI on Aug. 4, 1961, and that BHO, Sr. was his father. That would show only that he was a US citizen at birth. It would not address whether, because his father was not then nor ever a U.S. citizen, that made him a “Natural Born citizen,”
What’s interesting is that Obama served in the Senate at the time that body investigated the ‘natural born’ status of McCain, but never requested, and no one else suggested so far as I know, that a similar investigation for him.