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To: douginthearmy
However, there has never been a case which defines natural born by the Supreme Court, and since the 14th Amendment, you can't use the old citizenship cases.

Bullshit.

True SCOTUS has never ruled on NBC, but they ROUTINELY resort to Common Law for guidance when American Law is deficient. Many SCOTUS decisions say so.

If AZ passes the eligibility law and Obama is denied, he would have to go to SCOTUS for relief. Since there is no precedent [stare decisis] to go by, they will go back to the Founding Fathers' original intent - basically "What did they know - and when did they know it".

So, SCOTUS will be examining the same cases and documents that the Founding Fathers did when they wrote the Constitution. Based on the applicable law at the time of the Founding Fathers, SCOTUS will have to decide what their intent was ...

149 posted on 04/21/2010 10:44:54 PM PDT by Lmo56
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To: Lmo56
Based on the applicable law at the time of the Founding Fathers, SCOTUS will have to decide what their intent was ...

Well if that's true then perhaps he will be deemed ineligible since he is black. After all, blacks weren't considered citizens at the time of the Founding Fathers.. This whole notion of a 3rd form of citizenship is simply that, a notion. It has never been codified.

What I can't understand is how such intelligent people as all of you who obviously can understand the world well enough to read these laws and research these cases can possibly believe that the Supreme Court is going to evict Obama from the White House. To believe that the Supreme Court is going to kick out the first black president on an issue that fewer than 1% of the people can even understand (i.e. the nuanced difference between born a citizen not a naturalized citizen but also not a natural born citizen).

158 posted on 04/21/2010 10:59:16 PM PDT by douginthearmy
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