Bayard? Really?
Why don't you address a point?
Bayard was a US district attorney for six years before becoming a full time politician.
Compare with Samuel Roberts who you've previously belittled as "little several-counties-judge Samuel Roberts".
Roberts was admitted to the bar of Philadelphia county 1793, was commissioned president judge of the Fifth Judicial District June 2, 1803 and presided until his death in 1820.
While upon the bench for 17 years he wrote and published “Roberts’ Digest of British Statutes in Force in Pennsylvania,” a work well known to the profession, the last edition of which was published in 1847.
What did Roberts say? Read it:
Yeah that's right, mine's bigger than yours. All day any day. All you seem to care about is "authority". Well "my authority is better than yours" Roberts wipes the deck with Bayard.
Sarcasm aside, why don't you address a point? Hmm? You can't. You just throw out "you're a 'birther'" crap.
You don't understand venn diagrams, you cop one and screw it up, and can't even recognize that your position has internal conflicts.
Address a point.
Why don't you address a point?Maybe because I'm sick of bullsh*t?
At this point, I feel like I've "addressed more points" than anyone on the planet.
It doesn't matter. It's like arguing with a stump. I'm convinced at this point that you're simply an idiot birther for whom no amount of facts or evidence will ever make the slightest difference.
In fact, this whole conversation illustrates that exact point.
Compare [Bayard] with Samuel Roberts who you've previously belittled as "little several-counties-judge Samuel Roberts".
There's not really any comparison. The description of Samuel Roberts is pretty accurate.
In fact, how damn hard you have to look to find any biographical information on Roberts at all, illustrates the point.
Roberts had no national legal responsibilities at all. Sure, he wrote a digest of the British laws that SOMEONE ELSE said were in force in Pennsylvania, and commented on them. And yes, his work was popular enough - IN PENNSYLVANIA.
But really, professionally, his scope of responsibility DIDN'T EVEN EXTEND TO THE ENTIRE STATE.
His scope of responsibility, during his entire LIFETIME, was NEVER MORE THAN SEVERAL COUNTIES.
Compare that with Bayard, who was also a lawyer by profession, but who had official UNITED STATES responsibilities as one of our US District Attorneys.
If you just look at their qualifications, and ask: Which of these men would you go to, to ask about a point of NATIONAL law, there's no comparison.
Roberts gave his opinion, which was approved by... NOBODY.
Bayard gave his opinion, which was approved by... Chief Justice John Marshall, the Great Chief Justice of the United States.
In points of the law, it seems almost impossible to come up with anyone more authoritative than Chief Justice Marshall. He dominated the Supreme Court for almost 35 years, starting just 13 years after the adoption of the Constitution.
And yet who do YOU push?
You push the little several-counties judge from Pennsylvania.
You illustrate the worst of birtherism: You pick and choose what the hell authorities you want. It's not based on their authority. It's based on whether you like what they say. And you're more than prepared to throw out the best authorities, and embrace the worst, just so that you can maintain your idiotic birther fantasy.
And then you actually have the GALL to actually claim that a judge whose authority never extended to more than a few COUNTIES, whose comments were approved by nobody, is a
"better" authority than a United States District Attorney whose work was approved by the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
And this is after the relative authority of the two men has been made perfectly clear through prior discussion.
This is totally clownish. And it illustrates what total, complete ideological HACKS birthers are, how completely opposed to the truth birthers are, and what a waste of time it is even engaging in conversation with people who simply love their STUPID FANTASY and don't want to be bothered with the truth.