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.
We read the Constitution. We question your ability to define “natural born citizen.”
I guess I didn’t learn anything from my conservative Constitutional Law professor in law school, or my U.S. History teacher in high school
Here’s what the 14th amendment says about who is a citizen: “All persons born or naturalized into the United States and subject to the juridiction thereof, are citizens of hte United States and other State in which they reside.”
Translation: If you are born in this country, you are automatically a citizen. That is, a “natural born citizen”. Capiche?
If that wasn’t the case, how could Jindal or Rubio even be considered for Vice President, since they would not be able to be President?
It is true that their parents were not “natural born citizens”. In fact, I don’t know if they were ever made citizens. That has no impact on Bobby or Marco are not natural born citizens.
So, again. What relevance does this have to anything? Are you assuming Bobby and Marco couldn’t be President? Or are they less than citizens who’s parents have been here longer?