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Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution provides, in pertinent part: 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.**snip**This political season, the eligibilities of Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal and Ted Cruz are the subject of debate. As much as we want certainty, the term “natural born...

Freeper Investigation: Original Intent and Constitutional Jurisprudence by Jean F. Drew English and Anglo-American law’s core principle is the opposition to abusive power as exercised by the state. As Dan Gifford writes in “The Conceptual Foundations of Anglo-American Jurisprudence in Religion and Reason,” “The law is not the law regardless if it be good, bad, or indifferent. There is a higher moral law, originating within ancient Jewish law, which requires individual responsibility for opposing evil and promoting goodness. It is from this basic tenet that English law and Anglo-American law embody the following principle: The individual has rights against the...

Moore's audacious attorney 08/31/03 By EDDIE CURRAN Staff Reporter Herb Titus, the lead lawyer for Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore in the Ten Commandments case, chuckled when read a statement he'd made some years ago. "Where does pragmatism get you? It doesn't get you where you want to go," Titus was quoted as saying to a Seattle reporter in 1998 when explaining his decision to leave the Republican Party and join the U.S. Taxpayers Party. The Taxpayers Party espouses many positions that the general public might consider extremist, including opposition to public funding of education. "Pragmatists," Titus said in a...