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To: odawg

“The man writes a long article to make his point,”

There’s the problem. The qualifications for being our president can and need to be stated either in our Constitution or in a Supreme Court finding. It wouldn’t take many words.


48 posted on 01/20/2024 7:01:32 PM PST by cymbeline
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To: cymbeline

“The qualifications for being our president can and need to be stated either in our Constitution or in a Supreme Court finding.”

The qualifications can only be stated in the Constitution.

However, the Supreme Court has already made it clear:

There, a unanimous Supreme Court stated: “The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also.

These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first.”


51 posted on 01/20/2024 7:17:47 PM PST by odawg
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