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The Constitution and Judicial Supremacy: At Bench Memos Ed Whelan and Matthew J. Franck have two posts on the Senate resolution that declared John McCain a "natural born" citizen under Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution of the United States. Matthew Franck's post reacts to today's Washington Post article by Matthew Dobbs. The post disputes Dobbs' claim that a Constitutional amendment might be necessary to clarify what is meant by "natural born" in Article II. Whelan's post adds to Franck's post by taking up Franck's statement, " 'Congress cannot legislatively change the meaning of the Constitution.' That's true. Somehow it never seems to occur to most law professors that neither can the Supreme Court judicially change the meaning of the Constitution...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on May 02, 2008 (boomark / email).