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To: Danae

>Wouldn’t have cared and the Law are two different things.

Either the law is the law, or we have total chaos.<

If we do not go by the intent of the law, then we are left with just the words. That is a problem with Orwell working overtime on doublespeak. Intent *is* what matters in law.


152 posted on 10/21/2011 5:15:44 AM PDT by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: Munz

The intent of this law was to prevent anyone from assuming the Presidency who was not a Natural Born citizen, and Natural Born citizen was defined in Minor as a person born in the United States to two parents were were it’s citizens.

It really is just that cut and dried.


160 posted on 10/21/2011 8:16:00 AM PDT by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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