But he is not eligible to serve as President.
Section 3 of the 20th Amendment provides a remedy for a President Elect failing to qualify. The Vice President Elect takes the Presidency until a ‘qualified’ candidate can be determined.
Isn’t it interesting there is a provision for such nonsense? There are only THREE qualifications to become President. These things should be determined beforehand but apparently there is a law in place (since the 1930s) to provide a solution to this very issue. The issue of a President Elect being deemed unqualified.
Barack Obama is a citizen of the United States under the 14th Amendment. His own campaign has said this. That’s because he was born to one US citizen and one UK citizen.
The Governator is a citizen of the United States under the 14th Amendment as well. That is because he was naturalized in the United States.
The 14th Amendment provides citizenship to those BORN or NATURALIZED in the United States. Born in the United States OR naturalized in the United States.
Naturalized citizens cannot be President and neither can someone that is just BORN on US soil. They receive the same ‘label’ under the 14th Amendment. They are ‘citizens of the United States’. By virtue of naturalization or mere birth on soil
Anyone BORN on US soil to foreign parents is a citizen of the United States under the 14th Amendment. (think anchor baby)
Anyone BORN on US soil to one US citizen and one foreign parent is a citizen of the United States under the 14th Amendment. (think Barack Obama)
Anyone NATURALIZED in the United States is a citizen of the United States under the 14th Amendment. (think Arnold)
None of them can be President. They are all ‘citizens of the United States’. None are natural born citizens.
If Obama’s father had been a US citizen this wouldn’t be an issue. Nothing changes the fact that, at birth, he was a citizen of the United States under the 14th Amendment.
That is, of course, providing he was born in the US.
“None of them can be President. They are all ‘citizens of the United States’. None are natural born citizens.”
But people born on U.S. soil to one foreign parent ARE natural born citizens. I think you’re too clever by half with this 14th amendment issue. Obviously, the citizenship qualifications of the 14th amendment are not equivalent for the qualifications to be president, since they include naturalized citizens, who definitely are not elligible to be president.
However, if the 14th amendment says people born on U.S. soil to one foreign parent are citizens, then people born on U.S. soil to one foreign parent ARE natural born citizens. How do I know? There are only two types of citizens: natural born and naturalized. If you are born a citizen, you are a natural born citizen.