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EXTREMELY INTERESTING GRAMMATICAL MISTAKE IN THE CONSTITUTION
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Date: November 12th, 2015 12:08 PM Author: Wild cocky corner 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 |
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Date: December 13th, 2016 10:05 PM Author: Wild cocky corner (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#32134029) |
Date: November 12th, 2015 12:09 PM Author: Pearl buck-toothed pervert 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: Wild cocky corner 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: Wild cocky corner (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: Wild cocky corner (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29534330) |
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Date: November 16th, 2015 5:27 PM Author: Wild cocky corner (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: lavender quadroon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29527617) |
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Date: November 12th, 2015 3:48 PM Author: Balding tank (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29168005) |
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Date: November 12th, 2015 3:48 PM Author: Wild cocky corner 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.
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Date: November 12th, 2015 3:51 PM Author: Balding tank 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: hilarious travel guidebook 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: Wild cocky corner 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: hilarious travel guidebook 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: geriatric rigor 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: Wild cocky corner 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: geriatric rigor 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: vibrant navy piazza 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. |
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Date: November 12th, 2015 4:03 PM Author: Wild cocky corner 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: vibrant navy piazza 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 |
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Date: November 12th, 2015 4:37 PM Author: Wild cocky corner 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: pink crotch (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29527609) |
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Date: November 12th, 2015 4:01 PM Author: vibrant navy piazza 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: geriatric rigor (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: Wild cocky corner 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: Contagious Shimmering Stage 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: Wild cocky corner 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: Contagious Shimmering Stage 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: Wild cocky corner 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: Wild cocky corner (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3042850&forum_id=2#29225717) |
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Date: November 12th, 2015 4:24 PM Author: vibrant navy piazza 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: Wild cocky corner (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: Burgundy forum 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: Supple messiness 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: Aromatic heaven voyeur 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 8th, 2016 7:12 PM Author: Wild cocky corner (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: Balding tank (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: Beady-eyed Indecent Mad Cow Disease 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: Olive odious pozpig space 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) |