Well, the gentleman facing the camera, for one.
Posted on 05/04/2010 6:32:39 AM PDT by Retired Intelligence Officer
Arnold Schwarzeneggar wishes that but he can't because he says the Constitution will not allow a foreign born person to become President unless the US Constitution is changed or amended to allow it to happen. As we all know no foreign born citizens, native born citizens or naturalized citizens can run for president. Only a Natural Born Citizen can be President. Amending the constitution so a foreign born citizen could run for president would seriously put this nation at risk from a person who was born with allegiances to another country. It would be a national security risk. John Jay wrote this in a letter to George Washington when the Constitution was being framed for adoption warning Washington of the ramifications of a foreigner running the country:
"Permit me to hint, whether it would be wise and reasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expressly that the Commander in Chief of the American army shall not be given to nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen."
The result of that letter prompted the Grandfather Clause in Article 2 Section 1 which is this:
"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."
It has been that way and it should remain that way. It is a safeguard that we do not have anything but a Natural Born Citizen with American Citizen parents (plural) to be President with allegiance to the United States only. All Presidents to this day except at the framing of the constitution have had both parents which were American Citizens or Naturalized American Citizens. Am I right about this last sentence?
For those born here today, yep.
Well, the gentleman facing the camera, for one.
“Well, the gentleman facing the camera, for one.”
Oh, I was wondering what The Constitution really looked like. So you’re saying it looks just like a guy in a robe with his hand up..
“For those born here today, yep. “
Therein lies the rub. You think ‘today’ is different from when the Constitution was signed.
“Take it up with the courts. Until they say otherwise,”
Oh, in your world, the courts trump the Constitution. Nice.
The facts:
Children whom parents have legally immigrated to the U.S. receive their “citizenship “ though there parents and do not have to go though any “process”. If the child is born before the naturalization process is finished then the child is a Native born citizen( review Wong Kim Ark case) Naturalized by code. ( Native born naturalized citizen). If the child is born after there parents are U.S. citizens , then the child is a Natural born citizen. (Eng case,Supreme Court).
If a child is born on American soil to “one” parent who is a citizen then that child has only partial allegiance to the U.S and is a Native born citizen. Since Native born citizens have citizenship by code, it is not necessary to go though the same immigration process as “immigrants”
On obama’s “fight the smears website” obama states that had duel citizenship(partial allegiance) at birth and is a Native born citizen.
This disqualifies obama from ever being eligible to be President.
But since Article 2 of the Constitution was not enforced for obama. Arnold would have good ground to contest it and run for PResident.
” I, for one, know that native born citizens can be president.”
Yes, if their parents were citizens making them also Natural Born Citizens.
You can be Native born and not Natural Born.
Natural Born Citizens are not born of foreiners.
ping
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