Post by TomLine on Aug 30, 2015 0:34:35 GMT -5
MY PICK FOR VICE PRESIDENT
by Tom Lineaweaver
Hey folks, I found someone to be my Vice President. The only problem is he's not 35. Can I ignore the Constitution like Ted Cruz is. My VP pick is a natural born citizen. Does it really matter he won't be 35 for 5 more years? It's only a Constitutional qualification, why should that matter?
Being a natural born citizen is also a Constitional qualification, but that doesn't seem to matter, so why should the age?
What if the founding fathers were not concerned about chronilogical age, but rather maturity? The last sentence of the 12th Amendment is, "But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States." It was ratified in 1804. So, in the beginning, there were no qualifications for Vice President, so obviously it was not the original intent. But why 35, and not 30, or 40?
As Justice Joseph Story has noted, the "character and talent" of a man in the middle age of life is "fully developed," and he has had the opportunity "for public service and for experience in the public councils." Article: Presidential Eligibility
What if age of 35 is an arbitrary number, and "character and talent" are what is important? If the importance of "natural born citizen" is loyalty and not where a person is born, which is what Ted Cruz would want us to believe, then maybe it can be said about the age requirement that character and talent are more important than than chronological age.
The man I would like to be my Vice President has the maturity of character and talent of people twice his age, and I believe that is more important than a number. He hasn't accepted my offer, so I won't tell you who it is till he does. No point in turning his life upside down for nothing.
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