Will Arizona be the first to have a documentation law?

I have long since stopped fighting about Obama's Birth Certificate, I figure the truth will come out eventually and I watch as several states battle to get bills passed into laws to require documentation to be on a state ballot for an election.

Last night I read that Arizona is 1 vote away from being the first state to make a law to require documentation. In my honest not so humble opinion, this is a good thing, it would force candidates to provide documentation, not just some computer image jpg, that people argue whether it is shopped or not.

The law in Arizona would require that any candidate provide the documentation that people seeking, there was a bill that failed by 1 vote in January, it has now passed the senate, and is moving to the state house.

The argument by the Democrats is that states don't have the authority, the Republicans argue that states do have the authority to verify that a candidate is qualified. People are now speculating that Arizona will be the target of another lawsuit by the Department of Justice.

Someone told me that Obama was the most vetted candidate that the Democrat party ever had, however, I fail to see how he was so vetted. I mean after all, he has all of his records locked and secured more tightly than Fort Knox.

This brings into debate what qualifies as a natural citizen. Is it a person born to 2 parents that are American Citizens, is it to a person who is born in the U.S, even if the parents are not citizens. The words of the Governor of Mexico during a campaign for Obama to a group of immigrants keeps coming to mind, when this group was told not to worry 'Obama is one of us'

What if a birth certificate is not available? I mean it happens, records could be lost by the government, buildings burned, etc. The alternative documents would be a baptism certificate, a circumcision certificate, hospital birth record, or a post partum medical record.

Is Arizona as a state overstepping their bounds as far as what they can and can not do?


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