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To: Rutabega

There are no cases. The Constitutional clause refers ONLY to President and Vice-President. The clause has never been argued in the Supreme Court for absent a case that turns on such a candidate any other rulings are moot, only theory.


367 posted on 04/22/2010 6:06:50 PM PDT by bvw
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To: bvw

I know, and I thought that was what I said. I was being asked to prove that no cases ruled that someone who was not defined by two US citizen parents = NBC could be a NBC.
(Does that seem as awkward a thought as it seems to me?)

You can define a dog as a mammal that is domesticated, can live in the house, has four legs and a tail, and be correct. However, other things can fall into that definition, too. cats, for example. So, a NBC can be defined using Vattel’s definition, but as doubt was introduced that there might be other ways to be a NBC, we can’t know for sure that that is the only definition.

Smacking head with hand—sheesh, that made sense in my mind, but I just didn’t articulate very well. Maybe you can read what I meant and let me off the hook. Off to bed for me!


374 posted on 04/22/2010 6:41:07 PM PDT by Rutabega (European 'intellectualism' has NOTHING on America's kick-a$$ism!)
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