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To: GOPsterinMA
Did the Founding Fathers exempt themselves

Article 2 Section 1 Clause 5 of the United States Constitution.

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.


60 posted on 01/11/2010 6:22:21 AM PST by Beckwith (A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
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To: Beckwith; The_Reader_David

10-4! Thank you both!


64 posted on 01/11/2010 7:18:16 AM PST by GOPsterinMA (Never bring a snowball to a gun fight.)
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