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I'm not citing my personal credentials for you. What is relevant is the EVIDENCE, and the credentials that the EVIDENCE rests on.

I have cited historical and legal authority after historical and legal authority, ALL of chose credentials far exceed those of Mr. Titus. You don't contest any of those, because you can't.

But you spit on those Founding Fathers and other experts by ignoring THEIR credentials, and demanding mine.

Neither can you argue that Herb Titus makes any argument at all, because he doesn't. He presents NO EVIDENCE AT ALL. He gives NOTHING, except HIS OWN PERSONAL OPINION. And he bases that opinion on NOTHING AT ALL, except for HIS PERSONAL OPINION.

Here are the AUTHORITIES I have cited, and THEIR CREDENTIALS:

Philip Mazzei

CREDENTIALS: CLOSE, lifelong personal friend and next door neighbor of Thomas Jefferson. Author of a 4-volume work, The History and Politics of the United States of America.

James Madison

CREDENTIALS: Generally recognized as the Father of Our Constitution. United States President. Founder and Framer.

The First Congress

CREDENTIALS: Made up of the men who helped found our nation, including James Madison.

Louis-Alexandre, Duc de la Rochefoucauld

CREDENTIALS: Personal friend and translator for Founding Father Benjamin Franklin, with whom he co-published The Constitutions of the Thirteen United States of America. French nobleman and politician.

Zephaniah Swift

CREDENTIALS: Judge, lawyer, politician and US Representative. Supreme Court Justice for Connecticut. Author of America's first legal treatise, which was subscribed to by several US Presidents and half of the United States Supreme Court.

Alexander Hamilton

CREDENTIALS: Founding Father, chief author of The Federalist, one of our most influential Framers and quite possibly the man without whom our Constitution would not have been adopted.

St. George Tucker

CREDENTIALS: Early Professor of Law at our nation's first law school. Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court, author of "Tucker's Blackstone," the most popular reference work for students and practitioners of United States law until the mid-19th century.

The Marquis de Lafayette

CREDENTIALS: American Revolutionary War hero and General under George Washington, without whose help we might not have won the war. Known as "The Hero of the Two Worlds." Made a "natural born citizen" by act of the legislature of Maryland. Personal friend of our first six Presidents.

Chancellor James Kent

CREDENTIALS: New York Supreme Court Justice, first Professor of Law at Columbia, and author of the highly-respected 4-volume Commentaries on American Law.

William Rawle

CREDENTIALS: United States District Attorney for the State of Pennyslvania, founder of our nation's oldest law firm, and colleague of both George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, with whom he met regularly to discuss politics and law. Present in Philadelphia during the Constitutional Convention.

Justice Joseph Story

CREDENTIALS: United States Supreme Court Justice and author of the magisterial Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, the first comprehensive treatise on the provisions of the U.S. Constitution.

Those, sir, are my credentials.