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To: MosesKnows; Jim Robinson; xzins; P-Marlowe
Exam with great scrutiny why the founders added the "natural born" requirement for presidential candidates but not for congressional candidates.

This has been asked and answered ad nauseam.

The Founders were okay with a NATURALIZED citizen (e.g. a person born in another country to non-American parents) being elected to Congress. This has happened on multiple occasions. These people ARE NOT eligible to be president and NOBODY ever suggested they are. Dalip Singh Saund was a member of Congress, he was never eligible to be president.

99 posted on 06/12/2014 9:01:58 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee
These people ARE NOT eligible to be president

You fail to address this question. Why did the founders take this position?

Why does Article I read thusly :

No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. And

Article II reads thusly :

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.

Surely, they had a reason. The founders were very thoughtful in their consideration of the Constitution and possessed an excellent grasp of proper English grammar. They had a valid reason. What do you think the reason?

104 posted on 06/12/2014 9:20:04 AM PDT by MosesKnows
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