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To: hoosiermama

I’m not grasping at straws...what has Declaration of Independence to do with this? There is no definition of natural born in the constitution. Thus, a court can not rule on this issue. You may believe that natural born should be a child born in this country of two American citizen parents, but the constitution does not spell it out. You may believe that the framers intent was exactly this, but they didn’t put it in the constitution. Thus,I don’t believe the courts will define natural born and then retroactively apply it to the 2008 election. They don’t like to get involved in elections and it would be seen as a partisan ruling-a conservative coup... probably destroy conservatism at that. If Obama was proven born not to be born in Hawaii...it would be different. However, the natural born issue will not work in this situation.


167 posted on 01/27/2009 2:47:10 PM PST by bronxboy
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To: bronxboy
There is no definition of natural born in the constitution. Thus, a court can not rule on this issue.

Then they can't rule on the right to keep and bear arms, because "arms" is not defined. They can't rule on the regulation of interstate commerce, because niether "regulate" nor "commerce" is defined.

Ruling on these things is what they do.

178 posted on 01/27/2009 6:17:26 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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