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To: El Gato

There is no “constitutional requirement” except for what is spelled out in Article 2 Section 1 and in the 12th Amendment regarding counting the process of electoral collge votes.
I was speaking of the Constitutional requirement that:

“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.

That’s a status or “state” issue, one either is or is not a natural born citizen. Congress can’t change it, the individual can’t change it. Not even the sitting VP can change it.


Unfortunately, there is no state or federal law and no US Supreme Court decision that has ever definitively defined the term “natural born citizen.”


220 posted on 02/16/2010 2:21:06 PM PST by jamese777
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To: jamese777
Unfortunately, there is no state or federal law and no US Supreme Court decision that has ever definitively defined the term “natural born citizen.”

Then it's about time we had one, a SCOTUS decision that is. Congress cannot redefine a Constitutional term of art, because that would constitute a change to the Constitution itself, which they can only initiate through the amendment process.

221 posted on 02/16/2010 3:23:04 PM PST by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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