Article 2, section one of the Constitution.
?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.”
Nough said.
“I am really beginning to question the intelligence of the people on this site.”
“a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States”
The Framers excepted themselves or no one would be eligible (at least for many years) since most living Americans had been born British citizens.
Why would they use the phrase “natural born citizen” and not just say a “citizen”? You beg the question or argue in circles by simply stating, “Being born in the US makes one a natural born citizen.”
“Nough said” You put the new in noob and yer cruisin’ for a zot. `Nuff said.
Explain the differentiation between Citizen and Natural Born Citizen MORON!
The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their [p168] parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0088_0162_ZO.html
Get it or is it over your head, troll?
The phrase “a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution,” indicates the Framers of the Constitution held that this class of persons were not natural born citizens of the United States, because they were indeed born with allegiance to a foreign sovereign before the United States of America came into existence or after it came into existence but before the adoption of the Constitution determining eligibility to the Office of the President and eligibility to the Office of the Vice President.