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To: Aquinasfan
That would require an amendment to the Constitution, which would be impracticable and highly unlikely. Moreover, the amendment would have to be made retroactive, if that's possible.

Sadly, I disagree. The Constitution does not define "natual born". Early in this debate we had lots of competing theories about what that means. Eventually many settled on the "Born in Kenay, Mom not 19" definiton. But that comes from US Code, not the constitution. US Code can be ammended by simply revising it. The clause that people are hanging their hopes on *IS* weird.


65 posted on 12/03/2008 11:54:27 AM PST by Jack Black (ping can't be a tag line, can it?)
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To: Jack Black

I’m afraid that there are historical precedents that can be cited. Andrew Jackson was born to 2 immigrant parents. Obama would be like the 6th president with at least one foreign born parent. google “US presidents with foreign born parents”. It’s not as cut and dried as that. If Obama was born in Hawaii, he’s a “natural born” citizen no matter where his father was from, or how old his mother was. The court will never interpret the Kenyan-british-subject interpretation against Obama. I doubt that unless someone comes up with a picture of Obama’s mamma giving birth squatted over a pile of leaves in a grass hut with a Kenyan news paper dated 8-1961 by her side, this thing is going anywhere. Flame me, call me a troll, anything you’d like, but there are going to be unanswered questions. Look up US Prez Chester A. Aurthur. No one ever found out the “real truth” about his place of birth.


67 posted on 12/03/2008 12:11:32 PM PST by Myrrh123
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