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To: cynwoody

So if we apply this to the natural born citizen condition for becoming POTUS, let’s assume a hypothetical situation. Someone on the administrative and technical staff of a diplomatic mission to the U.N. is pregnant with the child of her diplomat spouse. Before she comes to term, she is recalled by her country of origin and her diplomatic visa is cancelled. However, rather than departing the U.S., she stays illegally and has the kid in the ER. Following a nationwide manhunt, she is deported after one week on the lamb in the U.S. The child returns at age 35 to run for POTUS as a “natural born citizen” (your definition, not mine). And your position is the FF would be okay with that?


64 posted on 05/26/2014 7:31:15 PM PDT by Tillie (When did it become worse to be called a "racist" than a "communist"?)
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To: Tillie
The child returns at age 35 to run for POTUS as a “natural born citizen” (your definition, not mine). And your position is the FF would be okay with that?

Dunno what your "FF" is, but the kid loses. Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 provides:

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.

71 posted on 05/27/2014 12:00:06 AM PDT by cynwoody
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