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The ball is now in the state legislatures' court to force Obama to show his constitutional cards. Expect a full-court judicial press by the Dems and their fellow travelers.

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Just wondering: What legal document does a presidential candidate in a state, like New Hampshire, have to attach to his application form to show proof that he is eligible to run for president under the laws of the Constitution?

That is, can a presidential candidate get away without attaching NO legal document at all like, say, an OFFICIAL document from a candidate's birth state with the state's SEAL on it?

For instance, if an unknown person like me wants to run for president on the Noname Party primary ballot, do I simply fill out and sign the application form without having to attach any legal document that I was born in the United States and that I meet the age requirement?

Do the election officials in New Hampshire simply take my word for it that I am who I say I am on my presidential application form I fill out in order to enter the primary?

If true, it scares me that anybody can run for president in New Hampshire without providing any OFFICIAL state documents that he was born in the United States, that he is the right age, and that he was not adopted by a citizen in a foreign country at some point in his life.

If I don't provide a long form birth certificate, how does New Hampshire election officials prove that I am NOT lying on my application form if they have doubts and suspicion that I was NOT born in the United States and that I do not meet the age requirement?

How about this idea: Republican presidential candidates VOLUNTARILY attach their long form birth certificates to their application forms in order to reassure the public that they have nothing to hide about their births and that they are who they say they are?

I bet state election officials would be thrilled to see a long form birth certificate attached to a presidential candidate's application form even though the candidates are not required to do so under state law.

As I see it, a state law can tell a presidential candidate that he is not required to attach a long form birth certificate to his application form, but there is no state law that keeps a candidate from VOLUNTARILY attaching a long form birth certificate to his application if he wants to.

Ballot access varies from state to state, but there is an interesting fact about presidential elections. The voter votes for an ELECTOR, not directly for the candidate for office of president or vice president. The electors are typically "party people," and the political parties are able to get a candidate's name on the ballot, because the voting public is familiar with the candidate, but not with the elector.

Anyway, there is no obligation to show any evidence of being qualified, for the most part. Some states have put known foreigners on the ballot, running for president. The state of California refused to put Eldridge Cleaver's name on the 1968 presidential race, on account of he was not even close to 35 years old.

I think states ought to tighten up the evidentiary showing that supports putting a presidential candidate's name on the ballot; seeing as how the federal Congress is utterly derelict in one of its most important duties.