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To: NDman
you guys do realize if you take this interpretation that our first 5 presidents wernt eligible to be president because when they were born they were also british citizens. Hell washington fought along side the british at one point.

Sorry newbie, but if you'll read Article II closely, you'll see that it makes provision for those who were born under British rule before we were independent.

374 posted on 11/21/2008 11:39:59 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (In Memory of Liberty and Freedom - July 4, 1776 - November 4, 2008)
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To: The Sons of Liberty
Hell washington fought along side the british at one point.

Art 2, 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 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.

NDman: What part of that do you NOT understand??!


380 posted on 11/21/2008 11:52:36 AM PST by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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