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EXTREMELY INTERESTING GRAMMATICAL MISTAKE IN THE CONSTITUTION

Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 provides that “No Person exc...
Sable idiot
  11/12/15
Elaborate, shitlib
Costumed poppy ladyboy
  11/12/15
Very excites. Now. I. Must. MASTURBATE!!
Cobalt Locus
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Sable idiot
  12/13/16
Oh wow that is simply fascinating
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  11/12/15
Why hasn't this argument been raised by those sovereign nutc...
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flatulent cruise ship
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Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 provides that “No Person exc...
Sable idiot
  11/12/15
Odd case
flatulent cruise ship
  11/12/15
something is seriously wrong with this guy but what
Excitant Tantric Round Eye Whorehouse
  11/12/15
what's your problem man
Sable idiot
  11/12/15
have you been diagnosed by a professional? you seem like an ...
Excitant Tantric Round Eye Whorehouse
  11/12/15
they werent as fixated on commas and their function in those...
Brindle fear-inspiring sandwich black woman
  11/12/15
then why use commas, shitlib
Sable idiot
  11/12/15
they were retards man. they thought & wrote at a 2nd gra...
Brindle fear-inspiring sandwich black woman
  11/12/15
the rules weren't very fixed yet if you want more understan...
pearly filthy tattoo menage
  11/12/15
interesting thanks for the note. What's the origin of the En...
Sable idiot
  11/12/15
when you consider that all written language is not language ...
pearly filthy tattoo menage
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makes sense, very interesting. What do you think of interpre...
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Contagious Hairless Jap
  11/12/15
see eg second amendment
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Brindle fear-inspiring sandwich black woman
  11/12/15
what about the prefatory clause in the 2nd amendment? Do you...
Sable idiot
  11/12/15
Scalia already laid this out for you, shitlib. I'm not going...
alcoholic public bath national security agency
  11/12/15
What about the majority opinion? What is the fatal flaw in y...
Sable idiot
  11/12/15
Scalia was the majority right
alcoholic public bath national security agency
  11/12/15
well breyer's dissent i mean, smartass
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  11/21/15
Ouch
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thanks for proving my point, which was that DUMBASS 2nd grad...
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Sable idiot
  12/13/16
lol at you americans trying to spell let alone draft a const...
Self-absorbed trip pit dysfunction
  01/05/16
Remember that college kid who noticed that one of the amendm...
rambunctious double fault
  01/05/16
Should have gone new thread with this
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flatulent cruise ship
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OP you are WRONG. Commas were not used in the same way in 17...
comical gaming laptop home
  12/13/16
I still cannot follow what the fuck point OP is trying to ma...
Glittery house-broken school legal warrant
  12/13/16


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Date: November 12th, 2015 12:08 PM
Author: Sable idiot

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: Costumed poppy ladyboy

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: Cobalt Locus

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: Sable idiot



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Date: November 12th, 2015 12:09 PM
Author: hairraiser trailer park dopamine

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: Sable idiot

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: Sable idiot



(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: Sable idiot



(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: Mustard histrionic cuckold



(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: Sable idiot



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Date: January 5th, 2016 5:03 PM
Author: titillating messiness



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Date: November 12th, 2015 3:48 PM
Author: flatulent cruise ship



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Date: November 12th, 2015 3:48 PM
Author: Sable idiot

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: flatulent cruise ship

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: Excitant Tantric Round Eye Whorehouse

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: Sable idiot

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: Excitant Tantric Round Eye Whorehouse

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: Brindle fear-inspiring sandwich black woman

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: Sable idiot

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: Brindle fear-inspiring sandwich black woman

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: pearly filthy tattoo menage

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: Sable idiot

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: pearly filthy tattoo menage

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: Sable idiot

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: laughsome sepia hissy fit halford



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Date: November 12th, 2015 4:43 PM
Author: Contagious Hairless Jap



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Date: November 12th, 2015 4:01 PM
Author: pearly filthy tattoo menage

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: Brindle fear-inspiring sandwich black woman



(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: Sable idiot

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: alcoholic public bath national security agency

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: Sable idiot

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: alcoholic public bath national security agency

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: Sable idiot

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: Sable idiot



(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: turquoise lay

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: 180 filthpig travel guidebook



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Date: November 12th, 2015 4:24 PM
Author: pearly filthy tattoo menage

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: Sable idiot



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Date: January 5th, 2016 5:12 PM
Author: Self-absorbed trip pit dysfunction

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: rambunctious double fault

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: demanding sweet tailpipe

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: sapphire embarrassed to the bone casino



(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: Sable idiot



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Date: October 25th, 2016 4:27 PM
Author: flatulent cruise ship



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Date: December 13th, 2016 10:17 PM
Author: comical gaming laptop home

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: Glittery house-broken school legal warrant

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)