Everyone knows of course that a senate resolution does not have the force of law...
Everyone knows of course that a senate resolution does not have the force of law...
But it does take a million more times energy than just picking up the phone, calling the Hawa’ii Dept of Vital Statistics and saying ‘ship me a copy of my long form so I don’t have to get the US House AND Senate involved in this.’
YES -- BUT understand, that the SCOTUS has elected NOT to consider NBC, as they feel it's a Congressional matter.
ALSO understand that out of nearly 30 other attempts by Congress to (re)define "Natural Born Citizen" since the 1870s, S. Res 511 is the ONLY formal Resolution from the House or Senate on "Natural Born Citizen" to make it out of Committee.
Start by checking the Congressional Record (http://thomas.loc.gov/) for:
-- S. 2678 (2008)
-- H. J. RES. 15 (2005)
-- H. J. RES. 104 (2004)
-- H. J. RES. 47 (2001)
-- in the 80s, attempts were added to "English as the official US language" legislation
-- ... and further back ...
For those who care to do the research, you'll discover that this is the case ...