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To: browardchad
Section 1 Article 2
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.

This is clear and concise and not open to varied meanings dependent on perspective of the reader. Either we follow the constitution as it is written or we do not but it's not a matter of "interpretation".
28 posted on 02/19/2010 6:27:18 AM PST by Durus (The People have abdicated our duties and anxiously hopes for just two things, "Bread and Circuses")
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To: Durus
This is clear and concise and not open to varied meanings dependent on perspective of the reader. Either we follow the constitution as it is written or we do not but it's not a matter of "interpretation"

Uh, no. It has never been actually defined in the context of Section 1 Article 2, so it therefore defaults to the accepted interpretation, in the year of 2010, of what a natural born citizen is: a person born in the United States, or born to one or two U.S. citizens abroad, with certain limitations prescribed by Congress.

30 posted on 02/19/2010 6:31:50 AM PST by browardchad ("Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own fact." - Daniel P Moynihan)
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