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To: Jack Black; Danae
Only if you accept the definition which you have offered here which is not encapsulated in US Law anywhere.

What are you talking about Jack?

I'm Canadian, and even I know this.

I dislike disingenuous people.

Section 1 of Article Two of the United States Constitution sets forth the eligibility requirements for serving as President of the United States:

“ 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 provision of the “natural born Citizen” clause provides an exception to the “natural born” requirement for those persons who were citizens at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, but had been born as British subjects before the American Revolution (or were born after the Revolution, but before 1787). Without this exception, ten subsequent presidents would have been constitutionally ineligible to serve.[1]

Additionally, the Twelfth Amendment states that: “[N]o person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.” The Fourteenth Amendment, adopted in 1868, defines a “Citizen” of the United States, but not necessarily a “natural born Citizen.” Its Citizenship Clause provides that “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are Citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_born_citizen_of_the_United_States

118 posted on 10/15/2009 4:49:42 PM PDT by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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To: fanfan
I don't believe anyone has disputed that a President has to be a “natural born citizen.” The argument is regarding the definition of that term. Some would like it to mean two citizen parents. Okay. Some insist it must mean that. There is no current statutory basis in law for accepting that as fact.

In practical terms, I believe Drew 68 is correct. Obama’s father's British citizenship was a matter of public record before the election. No court is going to disqualify a duly elected President based on a novel interpretation of the term NBC.

120 posted on 10/15/2009 5:00:51 PM PDT by tired_old_conservative
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