Re: Wording of the Constitution regarding citizenship requirement for POTUS
Dank 110100100
> On Jul 21, 6:05 pm, "5067 Dead, 200 since 1/20/09" <d...@dead.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:40:50 -0700, Major Debacle wrote:
> > > And then they conveniently left out a precise legal definition of
> > > "natural born citizen".
>
> The western borders were fuzzy at that time. Could an Indian become
> president??
Native Americans who are born on reservations are not U.S. citizens
under the 14th Amendment, because reservations are sovereign nations.
Indians themselves will admit tribal sovereignty when resisting state
or federal regulations.
The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 granted Native Americans full U.S.
citizenship, but the constitutionality of the law has never been
tested. The law would seem to violate Article IV, Section 2 of the
Constitution, which states that "The Citizens of each State shall be
entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several
States." Non-Indians do not enjoy reciprocal privileges on Indian
reservations. The 14th Amendment also refers to state citizenship, an
idea Indians reject when claiming state law does not apply to them,
e.g., when operating casinos or selling tax-free cigarettes.
Phlip
> Native Americans who are born on reservations are not U.S. citizens
> under the 14th Amendment, because reservations are sovereign nations.
> Indians themselves will admit tribal sovereignty when resisting state
> or federal regulations.
F---! That's why, even if mi esposa wants to go gamble and be decadent, even in
California we will not be able to find a casino that forbids addicts from
getting cigarette smoke in our faces!
Dank 110100100
Casinos are always exempt from smoking regulations, because all
compulsive gamblers are compulsive smokers. Unlike bars which were
able to survive indoor smoking bans, casinos cannot ban indoor
smoking, because gamblers simply REFUSE to gamble unless they can suck
on a cancer stick the entire time.
I did hear that the Navajo banned smoking in their tribal casino, a
policy I can guarantee will not last long. When I lived in Las Vegas
I used to hate going to the supermarket because they all allowed
smoking in the poker machine area, which were full of old ladies
puffing away like chimneys. Nevada recently banned smoking in
supermarkets, and now the mini-casinos are completely EMPTY.