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To: morphing libertarian

Call it all you want.

California didn’t make a determination that Eldridge Cleaver was not Constitutionally eligible for a Federal office - just that he was not eligible under California law to be on the California ballot.

As I attempted to point out to you, Georgia CAN and SHOULD pass laws that would help to determine eligibility - TO BE ON THE GEORGIA BALLOT - that could (but currently does not) demand the issuing of a birth certificate indicating that the person was a U.S. citizen at birth and that they were the proper age.

Absent such legislation the Court and SOS can ONLY rule on what Georgia law says their own requirements are to be eligible to be on the ballot.


25 posted on 02/07/2012 2:01:38 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: allmendream

Your first statement was wrong so I didn’t go any further. The constitution set the age for the presidential candidates and Cal enforced that constitutional requirement. Cal does not have an age requirement for president independent of the US constitution. Cal follows the US constitution as do the other states.

According to your illogic, Cal could declare one definition for natural born citizen and each of the other states set their own definition. Not only is that nor true, it is a recipe for chaos.


27 posted on 02/07/2012 8:11:22 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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