1. Lincoln not being on the ballot was not a Supreme Court case so, no it doesn't establish precedent in terms of a violation of the Constitution.
2. Of course you don't "see" the Constitutional issues involved because (it appears) that all you see is something that is anti-Obama and of course that's all you appear to care about.
3. One State mandating what another State has on their records of birth is a Constitutional issue as well as Arizona not accepting the public records of another state (which is a violation of Full Faith and Credit).
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Careful when you question who cares and who doesn't. If you cared and could get past your partisanship and ask why he does not produce the long form you might actually see something wrong with the wholke issue. But you will not allow that to happen.
If I strictly reacted on partisanship, I'd ignore the Constitutional issues and support the law like you appear to do. However I'm a Republican and hate Obama as President and disagree totally with how he's fucked up the economy. I disagree with ObamaCare as the federal government does not have the power, nor should it have, to mandate individuals buy insurance. I disagree with TARP and the Ballouts.
However because I can separate my personal desires from my opinion of the law, I can say it definitely has Constitutional issues such that (IMHO) the law is likely to be struck down in Federal court which means it was a waste of time.
There is nothing on the long form that is valid to Constitutional eligibility to hold the office of President that is not contained on the short form. Under the 14th Amendment the only requirements (as the laws exist today) is birth location being within the territory owned by the United States. The name of the hospital and who or who wasn't in the delivery room are irrelevant to that question.
If you are of the persuasion to believe in Jus soli, then the birth location on the short for is all that is needed.
If you are of the persuasion that it is jus sanguinis then what you need it the short form showing the parents. Then you have birth location and the names of the parents, at that point you also require the submission of the
PARENTS proof of citizenship at the time of birth (either their birth certificate or naturalization papers).
3. One State mandating what another State has on their records of birth is a Constitutional issue as well as Arizona not accepting the public records of another state (which is a violation of Full Faith and Credit).
Arizona will recognize Hawaii's long form BC so there's nothiung unconstitutional about this bill.
So what? Hawaii issues the short form as it's official birth record. If that is a document that they provide to show birth location, then under Full Faith and Credit Arizona must except that document for proving birth location. It would literally take an act of Congress to provide an exception under Full Faith and Credit under Congress's authority to define the "effect thereof".
You (I'm using the royal "you" here and not you personally) respect the Constitution or you don't. If you do, you recognize that Arizona does not have the authority to tell Hawaii what must be on the documents it issues to document births that occur in Hawaii.
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