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To: stratman67

Please read this section of the bullets:

Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is an alien and as long as the other parent is a citizen of the U.S. who lived in the U.S. for at least five years (with military and diplomatic service included in this time)

Barack’s mother was only 18 and minors do not count. According to Article II (I believe) the five years have to be over the age of 16.

Also, the constitution was amended since Barack was born. You would have to find the actual statutes that applies when he was born.


39 posted on 10/11/2008 4:15:46 PM PDT by autumnraine (McCain/Palin 08)
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To: autumnraine
"Also, the constitution was amended since Barack was born. You would have to find the actual statutes that applies when he was born."

Sorry, there are no statutes.:<(
However, you can poke yer browser to the Constitution of the United States of America where you will find this bit of information.

Article. II. - The Executive Branch
Section 1 - The President

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.

That's the way it has been since the Constitution was written. The only foreign born who were ever eligiblle to be president were here when the constitution was written. That would make them really Old Men today

40 posted on 10/11/2008 5:36:51 PM PDT by An Old Man ("The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress." Douglas)
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To: autumnraine
Also, the constitution was amended since Barack was born.

Not on that issue.

The basic problem is that the constitution doesn't define most of it's terms. This includes "natural born Citizen". It's pretty clear that they did not intend for the children of diplomat fathers to not be natural born citizens. It's less clear about people born outside the country, with the mother as their citizen parent.

It's also not entirely clear that Congress can legitimately define the term, as it has done on multiple occasions...(well sort of, they've defined who get citizenship on the basis of parentage, if born outside the country. Which is not quite the same thing, although almost everyone treats it as if it were)

46 posted on 10/11/2008 10:34:26 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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