Posted on 02/29/2012 7:42:14 AM PST by Colofornian
MrEdd,
I don’t know how you consider Rubio ineligible to be vice president because he attended the morman church and perhaps was baptized into it? Thus my sarcastic comment. Gamecock easily understood it in that his reply to my post was LOL.
I’m not familiar with there being a constitutional prohibition of the presidential and vice presidential candidates of the same party of belonging to the same religious group. Of course if one believes that the constitution can be made to say, whatever one wants, then you may have a point.
Rubio is inelligible because both his parents were not US citizens when he was born ( which is required to meet the criteria fot “natural born” status in the constitutional sense). The statute has to do with divided national loyalties, not biology.
Thank you for playing.
Pick up your consolation prize on your way out.
Obviously you thought I was referring to post #15, I was not, I was referring to post #1. Thus you are the wild goose chaser here.
That wasn't the case in 2010.
You’re probably right re: the nondenominational attendance...the thing is...a lot — if not most — nondenoms don’t even have formal “memberships”...So Rubio may have never pulled his membership in his Roman Catholic church...and for good reason...it allows him to have a “face” for lots of distinct constituents...
It's funny when you and others plead Vattel like a holy writ but ignore the first Congress and president Washington deviated from Vattel in their first full year.
Even Vattel consider "native" and "natural born citizen" interchangeable, the first Congress considered the definition alterable thus however U.S. citizenship is acquired at birth meets the standard.
I'm not fan of Rubio for VP but this argument is tiresome nonsense.
It's funny when you and others plead Vattel like a holy writ but ignore the first Congress and president Washington deviated from Vattel in their first full year.
Even Vattel consider "native" and "natural born citizen" interchangeable, the first Congress considered the definition alterable thus however U.S. citizenship is acquired at birth meets the standard.
I'm not fan of Rubio for VP but this argument is tiresome nonsense.
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