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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.
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?

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