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To: dascallie

This is all well and good..but what exactly would happen if everything turns out the way we suspect? Do you think they’d just say...ok..he can’t be President? They would just change the law retroactively....too much at stake.


36 posted on 01/03/2009 7:19:16 AM PST by Hildy
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To: Hildy

No idea. No idea.


54 posted on 01/03/2009 7:27:45 AM PST by dascallie
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To: Hildy

I don’t believe they can just “change the law” as it is written into the Constitution. There is a specific ratification process in place written therein.

Of course, in these days of up-is-down, right-is-wrong who knows what would happen should we receive irrefutable proof that Nobama is not a “natural born citizen”.


252 posted on 01/03/2009 10:14:27 AM PST by GatorGirl (Don't Blame Me, I Voted McCain!)
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To: Hildy
They would just change the law retroactively....too much at stake.

What law? The statute law cannot define who is a natural born citizen. Congress only has power over "naturalization". So the only way to pull that off would be to amend the Constitution to remove the natural born requirement. They would at least have to add ".. or a citizen at birth under the laws of the United States", and then change those laws retroactively, perhaps by making the current law retroactive, which it is not.

373 posted on 01/03/2009 12:39:50 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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