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To: parsifal
The Indiana Court's opinion is just silly. The silly court based their deluded decision on who can be president on the process and procedure spelled out in then election day Clause 4.

"Based upon the language of Art. II, Section 1, Clause 4"

And they totally IGNORED clause 5 - the heart of the issue. Indiana Court of Appeals played games to make the issue go away. These clowns were not serious at all. The heart of the matter below they refused to address:

Clause 5.

Clause 5: Qualifications for office

No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

527 posted on 05/17/2010 10:42:31 AM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel
Not only did that brilliant state court in Indiana misquote the actual Constitutional clause regarding the NBC requirement, the also relied on WKA for something that WKA didn't even recognize.

Regarding this: "the guidance provided by Wong Kim Ark", the state court of Indiana had stated this in the previous paragraph:

The Court held that Mr. Wong Kim Ark was a citizen [Edit: "citizen", but NOT a "natural born citizen"] of the United States “at the time of his birth.” 14
What does footnote 14 say?
We note the fact that the Court in Wong Kim Ark did not actually pronounce the plaintiff a “natural born Citizen” using the Constitution‟s Article II language is immaterial.
So, this brilliant "defining" decision by the state court in Indiana stated the wrong Constitutional clause from where the actual requirement comes from AND they say they base their decision on WKA which found that a child born in country to non citizen parents was NOT a NBC...and they admit it...yet they someone find Barry NBC?
537 posted on 05/17/2010 11:39:45 AM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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