Posted on 03/18/2012 9:10:06 PM PDT by Fred
Obama can’t set “precedence.” There’s no such thing as precedent in American Constitutional law. (You are thinking of English law, where there is no written Constitution.) What matters is the text, as it was understood by those who wrote and ratified it. And according to the text, as it was understood by those who wrote and ratified it, Rubio is not a Natural Born Citizen because his parents were not citizens when he was born.
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