IMHO it’s time to get rid of it and substitute something that is (a) rational, and (b) reasonable.
Putin 4 Prezzy!
The requirement is valid and should never be taken away.
They have already taken it away by ignoring it.
All the Obama suits were tossed out for lack of standing.
There was a specific reason that requirement was put in place. Like so much of the Constitution that the leftists say should be jettisoned to further their goals, this is just one more of those.
The reason for it? Obama. Grew up in Indonesia, hates America.
WaPo is full of caca. The Founders did not want anyone with divided loyalties to be the chief executive and commander in chief of the armed forces. Not just Euro royals
But speaking of royalty — how would WaPo feel about a Saudi Prince running for POTUS?
I could see this argument coming from a mile away. It’s been percolating in the academic and elite circles for decades. Cruz is the vehicle to eliminate the “injustice of the NBC requirement.”
The author says hardly plausible???HOGWASH
Princess Grace Kelly’s children
Queen Noors children - one of which has already got some years in of his residency requirement.
Duke of Marlborough was qualifed because his mother was a Vanderbilt. Duke is ranked right under King. It is very easy for some in the Peerage to marry an American Citizen and go live in England and then the child come back.
I agree with the suggestion that NBC requirement be struck, but only in favor of “citizen by birth”.
No naturalized citizens for the Presidency.
But we need to end the divisive and stupid arguments about the meaning of ‘natural born’. They cannot be resolved because the arguments are essentially dishonest at the core; and because there NEVER was any consensus on what the turn of phrase even meant to the Framers beyond ‘citizen by birth’. It was added to the Constitution as an afterthought and never debated or discussed. It is nothing but an obstacle to understanding and serves as a canard for people whose motivations are suspect.
The case for getting rid of editorials posing as journalism.
YouCon Ted agrees.
I agree. Anyone could become a naturalized citizen (even some Kenyan kid from Indonesia) and do this country irreparable harm, given the right grooming, backing, and handlers.
The most important thing is for it to be clarified.
We already got rid of it for Democrats.
JUST MORE INSANITY FROM THE WAPO. In this NWO insanity to remove all borders and throw the world into one great big stew pot with no requirements for allegiance to a country, no retention of culture, values, individuality, or right to dissension, the WAPO is right on schedule. Try to make the THINKING AMERICANS mold into stupid little robots and slaves so we no longer have any sovereignty or say so on our own country’s laws. All will be decided from cradle to grave by a few elite kings and queens and the REPUBLIC of the United States of America will exist no more.
Either we stand up and DEFEND the Constitution AS IT WAS WRITTEN, or we Lose forever our rights and privileges as independent people. The Liberal Road is directly to insanity. We have been warned. We had better listen!
Should Queen Noor’s kids be able to be our president?
I don’t think so.
No. Pray to God no. We need to tighten requirements for public office.
I am not going to have people, including Ann Coulter, pulling this crap. When we pointed out that Barack Hussein Obama is not a natural born citizen, we were called loonies, cranks, and birthers. Now people who are communists or impressed by the bulge in Trump’s pants (I mean his wallet for Ann Coulter) do what they excoriated people such as me for. There is no Constitution anymore. We live in a post Constitutional society and we need a principled Conservative to get us back. That means a Ted Cruz or the army taking over and having a Pinochet style figure put in charge.