I asked you to point out the law that requires the states to check the qualifications of candidates to run for POTUS.
still waiting...
The STATES have the POWER, under the Constitution to require that qualifications are met.
The STATES CONTROL NEARLY EVERYTHING ELSE INVOLVED WITH ELECTIONS!
This is, primarily, a STATE responsibility, and we need to address this problem at that level, NOW!
> I asked you to point out the law that requires the states
> to check the qualifications of candidates to run for
> POTUS.
This must be a case in point to demonstrate why this country is in the mess it’s in.
The Constitution *IS* the Law. *EVERYONE* is required to obey it, including the functionaries of the States that ratified it.
My wife and I have been through the international adoption process. The laws, however nebulously or poorly written, of each country were enforced BEYOND THE LETTER, “just to be sure”, by *ALL* participating functionaries, agencies, and litigants.
The court in the nation in which the adoption took place examined every document, and investigated all claims, fastidiously.
U.S. Immigration, through their satellite office here in my State and through their consular office in that foreign country, were so meticulous about the enforcemtnt of every regulation that I had to take one of the children out for a new immigration photo, the day before we were scheduled to return to the States, because a frond of hair was obscuring one small part of her ear!!!
At the airport, before our departure, we were taken out of the check-in line to wait an extra half hour while the police examined our adoption papers and the children’s emigration and immigration papers.
Upon landing in the States, we had to wait an extra hour while the U.S. immigration reviewed our case and examined every detail of the adoption and immigration papers.
If government functinaries can be that fastidious about assuring that adoption, emigration and immigration papers comply with the laws and regulations, however unclear and general they may be, certainly the papers submitted by a candidate for President of the United States should be subject to the same kind of due diligence to assure that they are in compliance with the law.
Any state or functionary that refuses to faithfully discharge this responsibility vis-a-vis the papers filed by a candidate for POTUS, is in VIOLATION of Article II Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution.
What am I missing here?