Seems to be another Cruzer who would make Anwar Al-Awlaki’s kids eligible just so the Cubanadian can run.
Same deal the Bushies made with the devils of the Democrat party, we’ll let the Kenyan from Indonesia slide so that our Mexican (George P. Bush) can run.
Yup, you hit the nail on the head. We got a whole buncha situational “constitutionalists” up in here.
Prince Archie, the son of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, is also the Earl of Dumberton. He is 8th in line for succession to the British crown. He is also a US citizen by virtue of the US Immigration and Naturalization Act owing to his mother, who is a US natural born citizen.
If you accept centurion316’s reasoning, Prince Archie is eligible to run for POTUS after the age of 35 and 14 years of residency in the US. Let us say that he did so successfully.
If the Royals were to be annihilated in a terrorist bombing at a family gathering, (ala Lord Louis Mountbatten) then Archie would assume the British crown.
Article I, section 9, clause 8 states “No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”
Notice that such holding IS possible WITH the consent of Congress. Envision a Congress (Democrat?) willing to grant such permission.
Is the above unlikely and absurd? Yes, utterly so, but nonetheless, POSSIBLE. I would have said the election of Obama almost as ridiculous prior to the reality of it.
The point is not whether it is likely or not. The NBC provision was designed to make such a scenario well nigh IMPOSSIBLE if the constitution is strictly adhered to.
To believe otherwise is to believe that the framers of the constitution and the founders of this republic were willing to countenance a British King as POTUS. NOW THAT is the most absurd thing of all!!!!!