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To: DiogenesLamp; Mr Rogers
"I don’t believe the Founders were stupid at all."

So you think they would have approved of birth tourism?
Whether they would have approved of it or not is completely irrelevant. They didn't put anything in the Constitution to prevent it.

They couldn't have foreseen the rise in transportation technology that made such a thing possible. But the proper response to such a situation is to amend the Constitution, not pretend that it says something it does not.
550 posted on 03/09/2013 4:02:06 PM PST by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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To: highball

“They couldn’t have foreseen the rise in transportation technology that made such a thing possible. But the proper response to such a situation is to amend the Constitution, not pretend that it says something it does not.”

Given that they grandfathered themselves, it is significant that they did not write the constitution to bar this from happening.


563 posted on 03/09/2013 4:12:58 PM PST by JCBreckenridge (Texas is a state of mind - Steinbeck)
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To: highball
Whether they would have approved of it or not is completely irrelevant. They didn't put anything in the Constitution to prevent it.

Do you know see how your one erroneous assumption is all that supports your other erroneous assumption? Of COURSE they put something into the constitution to prevent it!! You just don't accept the meaning they intended when they put it in there. I can't even give you a case of an obvious absurdity to get you to see how absurd is your theory!

611 posted on 03/09/2013 5:30:56 PM PST by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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