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To: itsahoot

Congress has the power — it’s their job, in fact — to fill in any gaps or vagueness in the language of the Constitution. The federal courts can then strike down laws where those definitions are inconsistent with or flatly contradict the Constitution itself.

It would certainly be within the power of Congress to define “natural born citizen” within those limits, as it did when it passed a joint resolution declaring John McCain to be one.


165 posted on 11/20/2008 4:29:04 PM PST by ReignOfError
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To: ReignOfError
as it did when it passed a joint resolution declaring John McCain to be one.

JSR's are worthless, they have no effect as law.

197 posted on 11/20/2008 8:16:39 PM PST by itsahoot (We will have world government. Whether by conquest or consent. Looks like that question is answered)
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