[El Gato]

There is no “constitutional requirement” except for what is spelled out in Article 2 Section 1 and in the 12th Amendment regarding counting the process of electoral collge votes.

I was speaking of the Constitutional requirement that:

"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 a status or "state" issue, one either is or is not a natural born citizen. Congress can't change it, the individual can't change it. Not even the sitting VP can change it.

[philman_36]

You're on the working end of the come-along now. {;^)

[jamese777]

There is no “constitutional requirement” except for what is spelled out in Article 2 Section 1 and in the 12th Amendment regarding counting the process of electoral collge votes.
I was speaking of the Constitutional requirement that:

“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 a status or “state” issue, one either is or is not a natural born citizen. Congress can’t change it, the individual can’t change it. Not even the sitting VP can change it.

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Unfortunately, there is no state or federal law and no US Supreme Court decision that has ever definitively defined the term “natural born citizen.”