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To: cripplecreek; All

Are you talking about HR511 or whatever it was, signed by Obama and company?

That’s was just a show. I don’t think Congress can’t change the Constitution like that, or make it retroactive. If they could do that, the majority in Congress could qualify or disqualify any candidates they wanted every election.

Not that it’s at all necessary, but I think they would have to create an amendment to define what natural born citizen is.

If you look at the history of all the presidents, except Chester Arthur who became president after an assassination, they were all born in America, to citizen parents (naturalized or natural born themselves), or grandfathered in as it was allowed for in the Constitution.

If we’re going to push for legislation, we have to make sure that natural born isn’t defined to allow anything other than born in America to citizen parents.


24 posted on 01/24/2009 3:08:52 AM PST by nominal (Christus dominus. Christus veritas.)
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To: nominal

“I don’t think Congress can’t change the Constitution like that,”

Did I say that? sheesh

should be more like: Congress can’t change the Constitution like that.


25 posted on 01/24/2009 7:12:03 AM PST by nominal (Christus dominus. Christus veritas.)
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