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To: Abd al-Rahiim

It is hard to see how you would have the ability to understand a response to your other questons, when you seem to be unable and/or unwillking to undrstand the fundamental legal systems and principle supon which they are based and their historical antecedents. You are trying to cite SCOTUS justices without an apparent awareness of the limits of their authoritativeness.


146 posted on 05/01/2011 1:57:59 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: WhiskeyX
Which item or items do you dispute? Whether you believe I have "the ability to understand a response" to my question is not relevant to your listing which item or items you think is controversial (i.e. in dispute).

I'll make it easy for you: None of the items I listed is in dispute, so you don't have to answer my question. NBC isn't defined in the Constitution; Chief Justice Waite did observe that resort must be had elsewhere, and he did refer to "common law"; and Justice Scalia did say in oral arguments to Tuan Anh Nguyen that "the meaning of natural born within the Constitution...requires jus soli."

Now, you may very well dispute whether Chief Justice Waite was correct to refer to "common law," and you can even dispute which "common law" Chief Justice Waite referenced. (Though a reply of "something other than English" is laughably weak.) You can also dispute whether it matters what Justice Scalia said in oral arguments. But then you aren't disputing items I listed, are you?

148 posted on 05/01/2011 2:11:45 PM PDT by Abd al-Rahiim
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