According to Encarta, the second principle of U.S. democracy is representative government. In a representative government, the people delegate their powers to elected officials. In the United States, candidates compete for the presidency, the Senate, and the House of Representatives, as well as for many state and local positions. In turn these elected officials represent the will of the people and ensure that the government is accountable to its citizens.
By not verifying that 0bama is who he says he is, our elective representatives have just ‘thumbed their noses’ at us.
What the elected representatives have done this time is make themselves complicit int he abrogation of our Constitutional Contract which existed between We The People and the bastards playing ruler in Washington as the 'federal government.' The Republican representatives think so poorly of those who sent them to Washington that they have decided it is they who rule us, removing our sovereignty by ignoring OUR CONTRACT. Not one of the cowardly Republicans could muster enough regard for the Constitution to stand and at least demand the eligibility clause be upheld. NOT ONE! You and I used to be the sovereigns of this Constitutional Republic. We are no longer and if this affirmative action liar is sworn in by a subpreme court judge, there will no longer be a Constitutional Republic.