Well, I don’t know if the words are archaic, but I agree with this author and Levin and many other constitutional scholars and accomplished lawyers who have successfully argued and won supreme court battles that Cruz is indeed a natural born citizen. To me, unless or until the SCOTUS rules otherwise, in this voter REBELLION, that’s the end of the argument. I’m certainly not going to place much weight or confidence in the unsubstantiated words of anonymous sea lawyers or the birther cottage industry. I’ll take another look if and when they get it to the SCOTUS and win.
If the USSC can’t get “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed” right; can’t get the definition of marriage right; can’t get the basic God given right to life right, I believe that leaving the issue to those NSA threatened justices may not play out as we’d hope.
i wholeheartedly agree that the opinions expressed in this thread don’t have enough weight to determine the eligibility issue against Cruz.
Ow! That hurts.
I’ll take another look if and when they get it to the SCOTUS and win.
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BLACKMUN, J., Opinion of the Court
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
410 U.S. 113
Roe v. Wade
APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
No. 70-18 Argued: December 13, 1971 --- Decided: January 22, 1973
Jane Roe (Norma McCorvey) Won this case. I do not believe that winning a case before the Supreme court necessarily makes someone correct. Especially the modern courts.
This case is one of the most blatant examples of a wrongly decided case. It's so bad, many Liberal lawyers won't even try to defend it's conclusions.
Among the other Terrible Supreme court decisions are Wickard v Fillburn (A Farmer can't grow wheat for his own cows.) Kelo v New London (A city can seize someone's property and give it to someone else) Lawrence v Texas (Sodomy is a protected right) and of course the Latest ruling on Obamacare. (It's a tax, and therefore legal)
At this point, i'm not seeing how amateurs could do a worse job.
Jim, there is not a snowball's chance in Hell that SCOTUS would take up the case or rule otherwise. With that said, I will go one step further and state that even if SCOTUS ruled otherwise, that would not be the end of tha argument. I am not going to surrender my graddaughter's liberty to a bunch of old senile communists who wouldn't know the original intent of the framers if it hit them in the @$$.
None other than George Washington signed a declaration into law that confirmed that the children of citizens born abroad would be considered as Natural Born Citizens. That was not an illegal amendment to the constitution , but a restatement of its original meaning.
Anyone who argues differently must be willing to state that one of the first acts of George Washington after he took office was to sign into law an unconstitutional attempt to amend the constitution.
I say that anyone who would accuse George Washington of such a vile deed is either a complete idiot who knows nothing about the man, or they are so invested in their birther arguments that they are completely blind to reality.
Early Voting starts in exactly three years. We have no time to waste on this stupid issue. We must come to unity on this issue as it is clear that if we cannot all hang together, we will almost certainly all hang separately.
Three years. It took Reagan over six years to build his coalition. I don't see anyone on the horizon who is more ready to the task ahead than Ted Cruz.
The constitution is lying in tatters on the side of the road and yet there are people so invested in this NBC thing that they would be willing to let the entire rest of the constitution blow away into the wind rather than take a more realistic interpretive stand on this issue.
Anyone who belived that a strict unbending interpretation of those three words is more important than rescuing the rest of the document is no lover of the constitution and no patriot.
The constitution was established in order to secure the blessings of liberty. It should never be interpreted as a suicide pact. Some, however would rather the rest of the constitution be destroyed than to give up their strict and unreasonable interpretation of no more than three words in that document.
God help us all.