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To: Soliton

“... since no one has standing to sue...”

Then why have a constitutional requirement at all?

So what’s the judge saying? That we are all on the honor system when it comes to constitutional requirements?

Somehow I don’t think the Framers had that in mind.


13 posted on 12/02/2008 6:07:08 AM PST by quintr
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To: quintr

I was just thinking the same thing. Wow! My God what is happening?


16 posted on 12/02/2008 6:34:40 AM PST by waxer1 ( Live Free or Die)
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To: quintr
So what’s the judge saying? That we are all on the honor system when it comes to constitutional requirements?

No, what he is saying is that those who actually vote for the president are the ones who have standing to question situations such as this. That would be the electoral college and not us. Consider the following:

Almost everyone in America, thanks to the presidential election mess of 2000, knows that the Constitution provides that the president will be selected by an Electoral College, not by direct popular vote. Only 538 persons, representing the slates of electors chosen by voters in the fifty states and the District of Columbia, actually vote directly for president.... http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/electoralcoll.htm

20 posted on 12/02/2008 7:07:05 AM PST by Dan Zachary
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