When has this issue ever been presented to the Supreme Court?
BTW, in the law there is always room for argument. That said, I have no “agenda” except to advocate for the Constitution. If that should require Supreme Court action-—and it may or may not in this case-—then so be it.
If “natural born citizen” is defined as you say it is, then I’m assuming you claim John McCain is not a natural born citizen and, therefore, is ineligible to serve as president?
Please don’t come back with “well, there’s an exception for . . .” Once you concede there are exceptions, your flat statement has already fallen flat.
While ultimately the definition you propose may be deemed the correct one, it’s quite naive to pontificate that this issue is cut and dry simply because the Court has had no occasion to address the issue to date.
Well since I’m not competing with you in a monitored debate, nor am I opposing you in a courtroom, I couldn’t care less with whether or not you think anything I say “falls flat.”
And I never claimed one way or the other that this issue has been presented to SCOTUS, so again, you are trotting down a path that is unnecessary in your dialogue with me.
And you yourself lack thoroughness, as you obviously have not read my previous posts on this topic, or else you would know what I think, my opinion of McCain’s citizenship (which is no opinion at all, but a fact supported by the Constitution), how I would respond to your over-blown jabs, and that I too support the Constitution, oh mighty one. Where we differ is how that section of the Constitution is interpreted. That would not have been so difficult for you to know. :)
As for pontification, I again couldn’t care less if I’m right or wrong, as my ego will not suffer one way or the other, while on the other hand it seems very important to you. And pursuing being right in a debate that exists only in your own head is that last desperate gasps of a true ponitificator. :)))