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Here's an argument I copied and pasted in it's entirety from MyFoxBoston.

Constitutional Evidence Why Senator Clinton can not be the President of the U.S.

The United States Constitution is made up of words which are historically defined. These words and their meaning can not be altered just to please the emotional needs of a society. A study of this document will reveal that the following words; person, persons and when theses words are coupled with citizen, they are defined as referring to a man or men. This evidence can easily be extrapolated when one carefully reviews the entire document. Examples of these meaning can be found within Article II Section 1 and Section 2.

To once again illustrate my argument, look under Section 2 where the Constitution outlines some of the powers of the President. Throughout Section 2 the President is referred to only as “his or he” the President is never referenced as any other gender.

When one studies the Constitution and the wording and phraseology of this document one can only conclude that if Senator Clinton is victorous during the general election, the Constitution provents her from taking the office of the President. This evidence can be found in the following section, “Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath”

It is important to note that this is not a personal attack on Senator Clinton or anyother woman. This is an analysis of the Constitution as it was written and as it is followed today. For more evidence that my argument is Constitutionally valid, refer to Section 3.

Section 1
The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same term, be elected, as follows:

Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.

The Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.

No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.

The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services, a compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the United States, or any of them.
Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or affirmation:--"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Section 2. The President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices, and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.

He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law: but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.

The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session.

Section 3. He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in case of disagreement between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper; he shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers; he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all the officers of the United States.
 
What a tool.

The argument is basically the same one that anti-gun people use when saying "there were no semi-automatic rifles when the constitution was written, therefore they aren't protected by the 2nd ammendment".
 
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hminsky... I love that argument. In that case, the first amendment does not protect free speech on the radio, television, nor the internet since none of them were available when the Constitution was written!
 
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