I would not disagree with that. But Congress is still the fail safe.
People are getting confused on Congresses responsibility on election certification. It’s real simple. If congress determined that Obama was eligible, they would merely say nothing and certify the election. Had they found him ineligible (AND HAD THE ***POLITICAL*** votes to do so), they would declare him ineligible and resolve the matter as the Constitution clearly points out.
Congress is never given the authority to declare a President ineligible. Their authority in the electoral vote certification is merely in deciding whether each State submitted a proper certification of their electors. That’s all. If the State submitted proper certification THEY HAVE TO ACCEPT those electoral votes. They have no discretion to do anything BUT accept those electoral votes. The statute is clear.
Show me something that changes that fact, or you and everybody else here has to know that you’re spouting BS.
“People are getting confused on Congresses responsibility on election certification. It’s real simple. If congress determined that Obama was eligible, they would merely say nothing and certify the election. Had they found him ineligible (AND HAD THE ***POLITICAL*** votes to do so), they would declare him ineligible and resolve the matter as the Constitution clearly points out.”
You’ve identified the problem precisely: “AND HAD THE ***POLITICAL*** votes to do so”.
Article II - 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; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
“No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution”, obviously an immutable requirement was intended by the “natural born citizen” portion of the clause, not a indeterminate requirement subject to the whim of whichever faction holds sway at any given time.