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To: Condor51
"Time to get some good strong rope, find small tall tress, and teach these faceless bureaucrats that the CONSTITUTION means what it says! NO FOREIGN BORN person may run - period - end - STOP. "

Not sure what your game here is. The Constitution says no such thing.

Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of U.S. Constitution as adopted 17 Sep 1787:

"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."

39 posted on 09/03/2011 11:57:50 AM PDT by Godebert
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To: Godebert
Not sure what your game here is. The Constitution says no such thing.

Yup.

There's nothing in the Constitution saying whether someone can actually run for the office of President or not. Or even whether they can/can't be elected to it. Just whether someone is qualified to actually hold it.

So, IOW, a non-Natural Born Citizen (or even a foreigner) CAN run for office, can even be elected to it. But that person can never actually ASSUME the office.
49 posted on 09/03/2011 1:43:43 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: Godebert
I think you know where I'm going. And I know where I was going.

What's important is that 'some people' don't know where I was going -- as I can't afford the bail or a new front door.

(and there's two ways of saying the same thing, i.e: Natural Born Citizen with TWO Parents who are US Citizens = NO Foreign Born, naturalized citizen)

57 posted on 09/04/2011 3:49:49 AM PDT by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits [A.Einstein])
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