Posted on 06/22/2024 8:28:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
"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"
No one thought that Washington was ineligible under the first part of this clause. The second part was arguably added for Alexander Hamilton, not for the seven first presidents.
https://joyinger.expressions.syr.edu/citizenship/origins-and-interpretation-of-the-presidential-eligibility-clause-in-the-u-s-constitution/
That has to be what the peculiar phrase, “natural born citizen,” means. The United States were formed from the original 13 colonies, so in the transitional generation or two after the war, people born in the colonies but before the United States was created had to be deemed eligible for the Presidency.
Are you referencing natural Born Citizen
Much ado about nothing. Those early elected men were born in the New World Raised in the New World and culturally Americans.
I would like to visit the Van Buren place in that area. It would be part of a trip in which I would also go and see Fort Ticonderoga, then the Van Buren in Kinderhook, and also the FDR library and museum in Hyde Park. Believe that the Vanderbilt mansion is also near to that area as well (would make for another interesting place to see).
Seems possible but the anti-MAGA's have already been successful in their attempt to disregard the unmistakable language the founders used.
The founders clearly understood there could be no NBC as of the first day of the new nation and allowed for everyday Citizens to occupy the highest office in the country.
See tagl;ine.
“ I’ll take Vivek as president over Elizabeth Warren or Gavin Newsom.”
BTTT
So would I.
So, while technically bone were bornin America due to the fact that America didn't exist, all that preceded Martin Van Buren, were every bit as American born as was Martin Van Buren. In fact some were instrumental with the creation of the nation that Martin Van Buren was born into.
So it's a moot point that is trying to make it seem that they were not Natural Born Citizens, but they were indeed Natural Born Citizens. They were not born in a foreign nation and then migrated and were citizens of the and what would later undergo a name change as a new nation on planet earth.
George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, on his father's plantation on Pope's Creek in Virginia's Westmoreland County.
George Washington's parents were also born in America and that fact fulfills the constitutional requirement that presidential candidates must be "natural born citizens", that is to say, both parents are citizens.
RE: I didn’t read this article after it erroneously stated that George Washington wasn’t born in America.
Where in the article did it say that?
Was refuting the presumptive argument — that first prez’s were “foreigners.”
proto-natural born citizens, so to speak. Born in the United States before there was a United States.
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