The heck with the Constitution! Let anyone run for President...again! s/
It's an interesting question, because the Founders didn't see the modern campaign in their time. So it doesn't say that a non eligible person can't declare they are running, it just says who is eligible to actually hold the office
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 PresidentThere have been plenty of satirical candidacies (first I recall was Pat Paulsen from The Smothers Brothers comedy show). The article quotes the FEC as saying they have no authority; any freeper lawyers actually look at the FEC's authorizing legislation to see if legal authority to screen out ineligibles exists?
This nut could not win, but if in any circumstance like this an ineligible person did win, I'd hope the Congress would refuse to certify, and the Chief Justice would refuse to swear him in. It's time for a national certifying body to prescreen using agreed upon standards.
However, the agency’s decision stopped short of addressing the ***constitutional issue*** of whether someone born outside the United States can be president.
What country is this?it isn’t America.
We had a Panamanian and an Indonesian/Kenyan running last time. New Jersey had a third, from some other South American country. Now we have Cubans and Indians getting ready to run.
It’s disgusting.