Thursday, September 15, 2011

The Presidential Qualification Issue

The Presidential Qualification Issue:

Congress, then, has no role in determining who is eligible to be president. Does the federal judiciary have a role, then? The scariest remark that I have read by conservatives is that federal courts have some role in judging the qualifications of someone chosen by the Electoral College.

courts' jursidiction, including the Supreme Court (except for a few narrow powers of original jurisdiction), are only what Congress confers upon the courts. Beyond that, the Supreme Court could not even exist in our nation until the president and Congress are elected: when Washington was president and the first Congress was elected, there was no federal judiciary at all, and there could not have been until someone was elected president.

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