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To: Gondring

No.

To be eligible for the Presidency you cannot be just a citizen, but born within the United States or on its territory overseas, such as in a U.S. military hospital or embassy.


29 posted on 07/07/2008 9:40:56 PM PDT by SatinDoll (Desperately desiring a conservative government.)
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To: SatinDoll
You can either be naturalized or natural born. The claim here is that to be president, one must be natural born.

In US Code Title 8, Chapter 12, Subchapter III (NATIONALITY AND NATURALIZATION), there are four parts. The first covers nationality at birth, and the second covers nationality through naturalization. (The other two are "Loss of Nationality" and "Miscellaneous.")

There's no "naturalized at birth for being born outside the US. Note that the SCOTUS seems to concur...Rogers v. Bellei, 401 U.S. 815 (1971).

Also note, in the Constitution itself, we find: "Clause 5. 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.

IANAL.

38 posted on 07/07/2008 10:44:29 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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