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To: WOSG
"That’s not what the Constitution says. since Obama was sworn in, he’s a legal President."

You will not find support for this contention anywhere in the Constitution. Here is what you will find that disproves your assertion.

Article two, section one:

"” No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”

You will also find this in section three of the Twentieth amendment:

"”3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.”

Putting these two together means that a lack of qualifying equals a failure to qualify and a failure to qualify equals ineligibility to serve as President. The term "no person" does not allow wiggle room for anyone who happens to cheat the system into being sworn in. You cannot remove the term "usurper" by making like it does not exist. Under your scenario, there is no such thing as a usurper.

169 posted on 04/10/2011 7:19:53 AM PDT by Uncle Sham
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To: Uncle Sham

“You will not find support for this contention anywhere in the Constitution.”

Read your constitution! Article I section 3 “ The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments.”

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h231.html

“You cannot remove the term “usurper” by making like it does not exist. Under your scenario, there is no such thing as a usurper.”

The word ‘usurper’ is not found in the Constitution. Your claims that he is that would have to be adjudicated ... where would that happen? IMPEACHMENT AND TRIAL.That’s the only way to remove a sitting President. There is no other way, and its lunacy to suggest there is some other way. It wont fly.

PS. You are going to go through all this to make BIDEN President?!!?!


171 posted on 04/10/2011 11:25:52 AM PDT by WOSG (Carpe Diem)
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