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To: Nevermore

And the Constitution fails to provide a process by which the president’s eligibility is verified.

And there is no law that state’s that this president must provide more documentation than any other president in history.


24 posted on 09/25/2009 12:58:16 PM PDT by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: trumandogz
"And the Constitution fails to provide a process by which the president’s eligibility is verified."

W R O N G !

The Twentieth amendment, section three plainly states:

”3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.

Basically, this passage ORDERS CONGRESS to verify TWO things before allowing a President elect to become President.

1. Is he alive?

2. Does he "qualify?"

If the answer to either of these two questions is "NO", Congress is instructed to seat a replacement who must also meet both of these conditions successfully, "alive", and "qualified".

Since the Constitution itself orders Congress to seat a replacement, Congress MUST know whether or not to do so. This means that the President elect MUST provide PROOF of being "qualified" to Congress or he isn't allowed to be President.

The words, "or, if the President elect shall have failed to qualify" clearly places the burden of "qualifying" upon the "President elect" as he can only fail at something He has tried to do. There is only one set of non-health related "requirements" for a "President elect" to "qualify" for in the Constitution, those being the eligibility requirements.

To prove age you need a proper birth certificate. To prove "natural born" citizenship you need a proper birth certificate. Congress, or any member therein can demand to see a proper birth certificate at any time these so choose in order to satisfy the requirements made of them in section three. Did they? If so, lets see what was provided. If not, we do not have a legal President.

44 posted on 09/25/2009 3:56:44 PM PDT by Uncle Sham
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