The musician had argued that his appointment as a roving ambassador for Haiti in 2007 exempted him from the residency requirement.Apparently, textualism beat out fancier notions of interpretation. No "active liberty" or whatever?
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Haiti's constitution rules out a Wyclef Jean presidency.
He's Haitian, but the constitution requires presidential candidates to have lived in the country for the past 5 years.
Labels:
Haiti,
law,
misreadings
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