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To: danamco; HighlyOpinionated
“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.”

A person can meet the requirements of Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5 regarding being a natural born citizen while also being a citizen of another country. The two are not mutually exclusive.

My son, for example, is a natural born citizen of the US and a citizen of at least two other countries. He will be Constitutionally qualified to be President at age 35.

68 posted on 11/17/2008 7:03:42 AM PST by Citizen Blade (What would Ronald Reagan do?)
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To: Citizen Blade
My son, for example, is a natural born citizen of the US and a citizen of at least two other countries. He will be Constitutionally qualified to be President at age 35.

Your son was born on US Soil to two parents who are legal immigrants? If Yes, then he is a Natural Born Citizen . . . but at age 18-21 he will have to declare his citizenship with the USofA and abandon citizenship to the other two Nations to be eligible to be POTUS.

As I read the Constitution.
75 posted on 11/19/2008 7:42:34 AM PST by HighlyOpinionated (Psalm 66:7b "He watches every movement of the nations. Rebels will not be able to oppose Him.")
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