[edge919]

One could suppose that since the Constitution doesn’t define natural born citizen, that via the 10th amendment, one could look to the states for their local definitions and apply them specifically for the home state of the candidate. Clearly under the Virginia law, Obama would not be a natural born citizen.

[parsifal]

“supposing” stuff instead of reading cases and believing your eyes is what got you where you are...

parsy

[patlin]

Yes, and notice that this law was passed 3 years after the Declaration & 10 years before the 8 years before the Constitution was drafted.

Prior to the ratification of the Constitution, in which Virginia was 9th out of the 13 to ratify, and after the Declaration, the states remained sovereign and thus the common law was the guiding force & that is why things got so bad. Every state had different laws, there was no uniformity. But once the Constitution was ratified, there became a set of uniform Federal laws.

They took the best and tossed out the crap that parsy likes to spew ad hominem.