Finally, we have it, the SC(not what I and the framers intended) has amended the Constitution without the benefit of an amendment. Perhaps, the birthers will expose that if nothing else. The Constitution is now and has been relegated to the whim of 9 political appointees who can ignore sections at will and make the document say whatever is convenient for them. We have no rule of law. I think that has been my argument for years. We have a living and breathing document. Three of kind beats two pair some days and some days not. It is Alice in Wonderland.
“Finally, we have it, the SC(not what I and the framers intended) has amended the Constitution without the benefit of an amendment.”
Uh, I never said it was SCOTUS who changed the original intention of the natural born clause. It is my understanding that the 14th amendment did so, in perfect accordance with the rule of law.
Now, you may argue SCOTUS bastardized the meaning behind the 14th with Wong Kim Ark et. al. There some credence to that charge, I guess, because there’s confusion over what “under the jurisdiction thereof” means. But if I’m right in interpreting natural born to mean nothing more than born a citizen, than this is where the real argument is: at the footstep of the 14th amendment. Not who tyhe framers had in mind when they demanded only born citizens be allowed to be president.