The Constitution doesn't require a presidential candidate produce a birth certificate for public approval - read it, the requirement just isn't there. Further, I don't recall any presidential candidate ever being required to prove his citizenship (McCain volunteered his and Obama did too, just not the long version), and I'm OLD.
The Constitution does require the president to be a natural born citizen, however it doesn't not suggest nor require any action on the part of the candidate to prove his or her status.
The Constitution doesn’t require a presidential candidate produce a birth certificate for public approval - read it, the requirement just isn’t there.
*** Just like there’s no requirement for an army general to prove he’s an army general when he tells you that you have to put up his friends for a year rent free? The requirement against that bit of bullstuff is the 3rd amendment, but you won’t find case laws or procedures built up around it because that problem hasn’t reared forth in our constitutional history. That does not mean the constitutional requirement isn’t there. For him to say, “well, where’s the written law that prevents me from doing this” is disingenuous. And it is just as disingenuous for CoLB trolls to demand that such a law be present for the same kind of untested constitutional area. The written law is the very first set of laws: the constitution, which is the highest law in the land. Your requirement that there be some kind of procedure or statute in place is a way of putting such procedures in priority over the constitution and it is a logical fallacy.
Further, I don’t recall any presidential candidate ever being required to prove his citizenship
***Because no one has tried to game the system until now. You may be old, but you ain’t that old. The constitution predates you.
(McCain volunteered his and Obama did too, just not the long version), and I’m OLD.
The Constitution does require the president to be a natural born citizen, however it doesn’t not suggest nor require any action on the part of the candidate to prove his or her status.
The Constitution does require the president to be a natural born citizen, however it doesn’t not suggest nor require any action on the part of the candidate to prove his or her status.
***Sure it does. It requires him to qualify, and that means to show evidence. The burden of proof is on the candidate, not on the people. That’s like saying about the 3rd amendment when there’s an army general taking over your home, “Well, the constitution requires that I don’t do this, but it doesn’t specify exactly what I cannot do so the burden of proof is on you, the homeowner, to prove that what I’m doing is wrong.”