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To: FreeAlaska32

but you do not have to be a natural born citizen to qualify for POTUS.

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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.

There are three requirements to be eligible to the Office of President. One of those is being a natural born citizen.

The grandfather clause expired long ago. The reason it existed is because there were no natural born citizens at the time of the adoption of the Constitution. Most were British Subjects so they had to write themselves in. After that clause expired, those who were born British Subjects were no longer eligible because they weren’t natural born citizens.

On Obama’s, “Fight the Smears” website, it acknowledges his British citizenship via the British Nationality Act of 1948. He was born with British citizenship. He is, at a minimum, a dual citizen at birth and his eligibility is questionable.

Our Founding Fathers just fought to free us from the King. The last thing they would allow is a British Subject to run the country, particularly the military. Over their dead bodies...


6,534 posted on 08/04/2009 6:52:06 PM PDT by wndawmn666
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To: wndawmn666

No it is in plain english:

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.

The ‘grandfather’ clause is just conspiracy BS. Please quote me the establish case law that invalidates the 2nd phrase of the above. (That’s a rhetorical question, because you can’t do it, there is no case law to that effect)


6,577 posted on 08/04/2009 7:38:55 PM PDT by FreeAlaska32
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