Is there a loophole in the Constitution which allows a person born in, say, Kenya, to become President of the United States?
There's a loophole that doesn't require a birth certificate to be shown... :-)
That's why I've been advocating that the states pass legislation making it mandatory in that state for a candidate to produce his birth certificate or else he cannot be on the ballot in that state. That would close up that loophole in the Constitution...
Thank you. That is exactly what we should be doing. These types of proactive solutions will go further than all of the other ‘stuff’
I cannot believe no states have passed a law about the BC yet. Unreal.
Recently, California elected a Lt. Governor who had no birth certificate and was witnessed to have been born in Mexico to Mexican nationals.
None the less, the California Democrat Party certified that Cruz Bustamante was a US citizen.
We've gone round on this before, so I'll just state it for the record - the Constitution states the president must be certifed as meeting qualifications which include being natural born. To argue that an exact process for carrying this out is not specified is a specious argument - an example is statutes, which require regulations for implementation. Not implementing a statute does not mean Congress fell short on the statute, it just means that someone didn't carry out their regulatory job. In short, this is a mandamus issue against those designated by the Constitution to verify the president - in Obama's case it was Pelosi and, I believe, Cheney, who simply failed to perform their duties. The States have no input into this Constitutionally designated process.