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To: Jim Noble

It’s almost like, in the English language, a word can have two different meanings depending on context. That would mean the word “keep” could mean “hold” but also to mean “own” or “store” at the same time. That kind of language usage would never happen in an amendment!


232 posted on 10/30/2018 7:14:02 AM PDT by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Hwaet! Lar bith maest hord, sothlice!)
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To: Charles H. (The_r0nin)

Look, XIV (and XXII, for that matter) are horribly drafted and say things in plain English that contradict the intentions of the drafters.

But “some dead guy meant to say THIS” is not going to prevail, certainly not in a case like an EO over birthright citizenship. A President has the authority to order Secretary Pompeo not to issue passports to the US-born children of illegal aliens, he does not have the authority to define “subject to the jurisdiction of” in a way that binds future litigants or US district courts.


284 posted on 10/30/2018 8:31:43 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain)
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