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To: faithhopecharity
Well Gee. The text of the Constitution I found on line says:

"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."

I read this as the President must be natural born OR a Citizen of the U.S. Not *AND*. I also don't see anywhere where it says that the person who is a Citizen at time of adoption of the Constitution can't also be a Citizen 200 years later and therefore eligible.

Therefore "natural born" is not exclusive of being a Citizen, which Ted Cruz certainly is. Therefore Ted Cruz is eligible. NOT an issue.

That is all.

387 posted on 08/28/2013 9:16:35 AM PDT by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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To: sauropod

They placed that part in there so that we wouldn’t have to wait 35 years for someone to become eligible. Man.....


391 posted on 08/28/2013 9:45:43 AM PDT by nesnah
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