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EXTREMELY INTERESTING GRAMMATICAL MISTAKE IN THE CONSTITUTION

Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 provides that “No Person exc...
Seedy Insane Hospital Stain
  11/12/15
Elaborate, shitlib
lavender exciting address jew
  11/12/15
Very excites. Now. I. Must. MASTURBATE!!
Titillating black philosopher-king principal's office
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Seedy Insane Hospital Stain
  12/13/16
Oh wow that is simply fascinating
chestnut mother
  11/12/15
Why hasn't this argument been raised by those sovereign nutc...
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Jade elastic band house
  11/12/15
Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 provides that “No Person exc...
Seedy Insane Hospital Stain
  11/12/15
Odd case
Jade elastic band house
  11/12/15
something is seriously wrong with this guy but what
Insecure stubborn den doctorate
  11/12/15
what's your problem man
Seedy Insane Hospital Stain
  11/12/15
have you been diagnosed by a professional? you seem like an ...
Insecure stubborn den doctorate
  11/12/15
they werent as fixated on commas and their function in those...
apoplectic mad-dog skullcap
  11/12/15
then why use commas, shitlib
Seedy Insane Hospital Stain
  11/12/15
they were retards man. they thought & wrote at a 2nd gra...
apoplectic mad-dog skullcap
  11/12/15
the rules weren't very fixed yet if you want more understan...
Comical Temple
  11/12/15
interesting thanks for the note. What's the origin of the En...
Seedy Insane Hospital Stain
  11/12/15
when you consider that all written language is not language ...
Comical Temple
  11/12/15
makes sense, very interesting. What do you think of interpre...
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electric drunken gaping
  11/12/15
see eg second amendment
Comical Temple
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apoplectic mad-dog skullcap
  11/12/15
what about the prefatory clause in the 2nd amendment? Do you...
Seedy Insane Hospital Stain
  11/12/15
Scalia already laid this out for you, shitlib. I'm not going...
stimulating sadistic feces
  11/12/15
What about the majority opinion? What is the fatal flaw in y...
Seedy Insane Hospital Stain
  11/12/15
Scalia was the majority right
stimulating sadistic feces
  11/12/15
well breyer's dissent i mean, smartass
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Seedy Insane Hospital Stain
  11/21/15
Ouch
Chartreuse stead
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self-absorbed preventive strike theater
  10/25/16
thanks for proving my point, which was that DUMBASS 2nd grad...
Comical Temple
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Seedy Insane Hospital Stain
  12/13/16
lol at you americans trying to spell let alone draft a const...
Brilliant Karate
  01/05/16
Remember that college kid who noticed that one of the amendm...
Khaki yapping new version
  01/05/16
Should have gone new thread with this
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Jade elastic band house
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OP you are WRONG. Commas were not used in the same way in 17...
rough-skinned sound barrier locus
  12/13/16
I still cannot follow what the fuck point OP is trying to ma...
Sienna Violent Mediation Mad Cow Disease
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Date: November 12th, 2015 12:08 PM
Author: Seedy Insane Hospital Stain

Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 provides that “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 . . . .” U.S. CONST. art. II, § 1, cl. 5. The comma after “States” seems to turn “or a citizen of the United States” into a parenthetical phrase, which would apparently make every President since Zachary Taylor illegitimate.

See Jordan Steiker, Sanford Levinson & J.M. Balkin, Taking Text and Structure Really Seriously: Constitutional Interpretation and the Crisis of Presidential Eligibility, 74 TEX. L. REV. 237 (1995

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29166774)



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Date: November 12th, 2015 12:10 PM
Author: lavender exciting address jew

Elaborate, shitlib

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29166790)



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Date: January 5th, 2016 8:40 PM
Author: Titillating black philosopher-king principal's office

Very excites.

Now.

I. Must. MASTURBATE!!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29529859)



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Date: December 13th, 2016 10:05 PM
Author: Seedy Insane Hospital Stain



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#32134029)



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Date: November 12th, 2015 12:09 PM
Author: chestnut mother

Oh wow that is simply fascinating

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29166786)



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Date: November 12th, 2015 12:12 PM
Author: Seedy Insane Hospital Stain

Why hasn't this argument been raised by those sovereign nutcases in court?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29166799)



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Date: November 12th, 2015 3:38 PM
Author: Seedy Insane Hospital Stain



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29167965)



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Date: January 6th, 2016 12:18 PM
Author: Seedy Insane Hospital Stain



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29534330)



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Date: October 25th, 2016 8:31 PM
Author: Shimmering talented newt parlour



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#31726569)



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Date: November 16th, 2015 5:27 PM
Author: Seedy Insane Hospital Stain



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29195866)



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Date: January 5th, 2016 5:03 PM
Author: Angry Territorial Boistinker Stag Film



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Date: November 12th, 2015 3:48 PM
Author: Jade elastic band house



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Date: November 12th, 2015 3:48 PM
Author: Seedy Insane Hospital Stain

Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 provides that “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 . . . .” U.S. CONST. art. II, § 1, cl. 5. The comma after “States” seems to turn “or a citizen of the United States” into a parenthetical phrase, which would apparently make every President since Zachary Taylor illegitimate.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29168008)



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Date: November 12th, 2015 3:51 PM
Author: Jade elastic band house

Odd case

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29168024)



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Date: November 12th, 2015 3:51 PM
Author: Insecure stubborn den doctorate

something is seriously wrong with this guy but what

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29168022)



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Date: November 12th, 2015 3:52 PM
Author: Seedy Insane Hospital Stain

what's your problem man

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29168028)



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Date: November 12th, 2015 4:55 PM
Author: Insecure stubborn den doctorate

have you been diagnosed by a professional? you seem like an unusual case

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29168390)



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Date: November 12th, 2015 4:00 PM
Author: apoplectic mad-dog skullcap

they werent as fixated on commas and their function in those days

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29168059)



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Date: November 12th, 2015 4:00 PM
Author: Seedy Insane Hospital Stain

then why use commas, shitlib

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29168062)



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Date: November 12th, 2015 4:02 PM
Author: apoplectic mad-dog skullcap

they were retards man. they thought & wrote at a 2nd grade level

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29168071)



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Date: November 12th, 2015 4:03 PM
Author: Comical Temple

the rules weren't very fixed yet

if you want more understanding, look at Japanese, whose comma usage is fucked up and there are no real rules about their usage. Sometimes they'll use them to represent pauses; other times they'll insert them after a topic marker; other times they won't. This despite being an advanced economy and first-world nation. There's no dominant style guide that dictates their use, and orthography isn't focused on in school, either. Even highly educated people couldn't explain comma usage.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29168075)



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Date: November 12th, 2015 4:03 PM
Author: Seedy Insane Hospital Stain

interesting thanks for the note. What's the origin of the English punctuation system? It seems pretty intuitive but perhaps that is a function of our educational pedigree?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29168081)



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Date: November 12th, 2015 4:22 PM
Author: Comical Temple

when you consider that all written language is not language but just some SPS attempt to fix language on paper (like a symbolic representation of langauge rather than language itself), you realize that there's no reason writing is necessarily accurate (consider ASL, which has no formalized writing system AFAIK yet ASL is a language for sure)

i don't know the full history other than that it's totally shit and ad hoc and a relatively modern invention

its main utility is that in spoken language if i say something unclear, you can ask me for clarification, bu tin writing it has to be understandable since you can't ask a writer for clarification

i can't opine on the origins, but i assume (likely correctly) that it's this multi-thousand year struggle to figure out how to we make things clear, which includes aesthetic concerns because unaesthetic punctuation hinders the speed of reading

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29168184)



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Date: November 12th, 2015 4:37 PM
Author: Seedy Insane Hospital Stain

makes sense, very interesting. What do you think of interpretation/hermenutical ? Do you think there is no established meaning of a text?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29168255)



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Date: January 5th, 2016 5:02 PM
Author: Greedy bisexual generalized bond



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29527609)



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Date: November 12th, 2015 4:43 PM
Author: electric drunken gaping



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29168287)



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Date: November 12th, 2015 4:01 PM
Author: Comical Temple

see eg second amendment

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29168066)



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Date: November 12th, 2015 4:01 PM
Author: apoplectic mad-dog skullcap



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29168067)



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Date: November 12th, 2015 4:03 PM
Author: Seedy Insane Hospital Stain

what about the prefatory clause in the 2nd amendment? Do you realize how it operates with the operative clause?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29168076)



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Date: November 12th, 2015 4:05 PM
Author: stimulating sadistic feces

Scalia already laid this out for you, shitlib. I'm not going to waste my time doing it again

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29168089)



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Date: November 12th, 2015 4:09 PM
Author: Seedy Insane Hospital Stain

What about the majority opinion? What is the fatal flaw in your opinion, shitcon?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29168118)



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Date: November 12th, 2015 4:29 PM
Author: stimulating sadistic feces

Scalia was the majority right

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29168215)



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Date: November 12th, 2015 4:36 PM
Author: Seedy Insane Hospital Stain

well breyer's dissent i mean, smartass

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29168250)



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Date: November 21st, 2015 2:50 PM
Author: Seedy Insane Hospital Stain



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29225717)



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Date: January 5th, 2016 5:10 PM
Author: Chartreuse stead

Ouch

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29527670)



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Date: October 25th, 2016 6:36 PM
Author: self-absorbed preventive strike theater



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#31725823)



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Date: November 12th, 2015 4:24 PM
Author: Comical Temple

thanks for proving my point, which was that DUMBASS 2nd grade barely literate founding fathers created, with the intent for it to last thousands of years and be totally clear in its intent, a document whose comma usage is so atrocious that educated people today still debate what the fuck it means

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29168186)



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Date: December 13th, 2016 10:14 PM
Author: Seedy Insane Hospital Stain



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#32134112)



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Date: January 5th, 2016 5:12 PM
Author: Brilliant Karate

lol at you americans trying to spell let alone draft a constitution

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29527681)



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Date: January 5th, 2016 8:42 PM
Author: Khaki yapping new version

Remember that college kid who noticed that one of the amendments hadn't been properly ratified? Ljl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29529869)



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Date: December 13th, 2016 10:25 PM
Author: beta splenetic sanctuary rigor

Should have gone new thread with this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#32134216)



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Date: April 7th, 2016 9:26 PM
Author: Buff jewess



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#30224733)



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Date: April 8th, 2016 7:12 PM
Author: Seedy Insane Hospital Stain



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#30231470)



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Date: October 25th, 2016 4:27 PM
Author: Jade elastic band house



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#31724935)



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Date: December 13th, 2016 10:17 PM
Author: rough-skinned sound barrier locus

OP you are WRONG. Commas were not used in the same way in 1776 that they are used today. They were used much more frequently in sentences. It was, common, very common to use lots of commas, frequently. Didn't you learn this in elementary school history class?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#32134142)



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Date: December 13th, 2016 10:28 PM
Author: Sienna Violent Mediation Mad Cow Disease

I still cannot follow what the fuck point OP is trying to make. Please explain it more slowly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#32134245)