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To: MestaMachine
The Constitution empowers the voters and their electors to select the president. Part of that job is to determine the qualifications of the candidates.

Since our first Chief Justice (John Jay), the Supreme Court has consistently refused to offer "advisory opinions" (i.e., opinions that are not necessary to the resolution of a case before them). If you read the constitutional provisions regarding how we choose presidents, you will not find any references to the Supreme Court having any role in ruling on candidates' qualifications to be president.

In other words, selecting presidents and removing presidents is not the job of the Supreme Court. There is thus no occasion for them to offer their opinions on the matter.

43 posted on 03/11/2013 4:57:47 PM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: Tau Food

Well, n00b, it is clear that you do not believe this to be a Constitutional Republic. Go over to DU and obfuscate for your little barry bastard commie. It is not being vote tested if it is not a Constitutional amendment being voted upon. It is exactly in the purview of the unSCOTUS to decide the meaning Constitutionally of Natural Born Citizen. That you cannot grasp that or don’t want it to be that way says a lot about you, n00b. I’m just wondering how one of the individuals mesta named could actually get the issue before the pirate Roberts court!


48 posted on 03/11/2013 6:24:33 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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