To: Tublecane
"No, so far as we can know the president was meant to be a natural born citizen. Anything else is pure supposition, and does not control plain meaning. It could be useful for construing the text when it is unclear, but its not here. NBCs are people born citizens. That may have been only the children of two citizen parents at the original framing. By the 14th amendment, there is no doubt that its means more."
Whether you know it or not, you are arguing what the meaning of "is" is.
To: precisionshootist; Tublecane
Whether you know it or not, you are arguing what the meaning of "is" is.
Tublecane knows exactly what he's doing.
Many others know exactly what he's doing as well.
292 posted on
05/01/2012 8:04:43 PM PDT by
philman_36
(Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
To: precisionshootist
Only after-birthers try so hard to sow doubt and confusion.
293 posted on
05/01/2012 8:06:30 PM PDT by
philman_36
(Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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