With that post right there, you have proven yourself completely unqualified to discuss legal issues. You do not even have a beginners grasp of legalese, and you deliberately take SCOTUS cases out of context. Then you cite un-named modern textbooks (out of a liberal school system already well into marginalizing American History and the Constitution with moronic claims like “Living Document”)?
Oh goodness....... Folks, this is the product of our current public school system...
Post away Squeeky, but I will waste no further time with you. Have a good day.
Modern textbooks??? OH, here is MODERN one I just quoted from on my latest Internet Article. It is from 1879, just 4 years after Minor, and doesn’t seem to have grasped the overwhelming importance of the Biggest Citizenship Case Ever:
“4. 1879 Outline for Civil Government Designed For Common Schools by W.. Thatcher:
Art. II., Sec. i, Clause 5.—Qualifications of the President.
No person, except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
(a.) Natural born.—Born in the United States. Our state constitution does not thus limit the office of its executive.”
I had to stop at 21 examples of stuff that contradicted Donofrio’s silliness because I could have written a book on how messed up his theory is.
So There!!!