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Article: What is the Constitution's worst provision? (naturalized citizens barred from presidency) (Constitutional Stupidities: A Symposium)
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- Constitutional Commentary
- Article date:
- June 22, 1995
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I confess that when Sandy Levinson asked me to contribute to this Symposium I had a momentary flash of panic, the same searing sense of stammering inadequacy that always seems to well up whenever my ten-year-old daughter Amelia asks such pointed questions as "What is your favorite movie?" or "What color do you hate the most?" For someone like myself who perenially and professionally shifts among subdued shades of gray, celebrating nuance and complexity, such invitations to extreme and personal self-assertion are not only disruptive, they are downright painful. They flex muscles that have long atrophied.
Swallowing my anxiety, however, and accepting the assignment, I ...