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To: Lurkinanloomin

Where in the Constitution is the “natural born citizen clause”?


10 posted on 01/24/2018 8:58:24 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: WayneS

Article 2, Section One, Paragraph 4

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.


12 posted on 01/24/2018 9:02:30 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: WayneS

Article II sec. 1 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 ...

The purpose of the exclusion for themselves (or a citizen at the time) was because they knew it would take 35 years to produce the first eligible natural born citizen of this new country.

One is only naturally a citizen when one cannot be anything else by being born here of citizen parents.
When one is born of foreign nationals, one inherits foreign nationalities, allegiances and loyalties and is not naturally an American.


14 posted on 01/24/2018 9:03:43 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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