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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: TimF who wrote (42857)4/22/2010 2:01:40 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
Re: "But for future candidates, why not make them prove eligibility before they can get on the ballot?"

I have absolutely no problem with that idea. (Although the US Constitution means that laws in the States *cannot* overrule or change federal election laws, so you would have to be talking about some sort of national law you wanted to see get passed.)

Congress has (several times) passed legislation directly impacting how the constitution's qualifications clause is met --- once near the turn of the nineteenth century, and again just a few years ago to specifically change the rules to make sure that John McCains' (or any other American's) birth in the Canal Zone did not disqualify them from becoming President... so they surely could pass further legislation in this area if they wanted to.

Of course... there is no doubt (no legal doubt anyway) that Obama's State-issued and officially certified birth certificate (recognized in all fifty states, by all federal agencies, and by every Court in the land, as are all the other birth certificates issued by Hawaii), and recently verified and attested to by the state's Republican Governor and the state's director of data services and keeper of the state data archive... not to mention the contemporaneous birth announcements in the two newspapers of record at the time of his birth, would ALREADY meet any "certification requirement" likely to be put in whatever legislation you'd propose....
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