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To: princess leah
Was he born before 1959, because Hawaii wasn't a state before then - perhaps we could get him disqualified on a technicality (has to be a US citizen born in the states)

It was still considered a part of the United States, unlike Puerto Rico and Guam which have a different legal status. He's a U.S. citizen per the 14th Amendment.

They tried that on Goldwater in 1964, saying he was born in Arizona before it was a state. It didn't work then, either.

13 posted on 01/17/2007 2:50:44 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

I'm pretty certain a Puerto Rican or a Guamanian could be elected President.

It's an interesting issue in that there isn't, of course, a lot of case law concerning that Constitutional requirement.


27 posted on 01/17/2007 3:16:25 PM PST by Strategerist
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