http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3160774/posts?page=31#31
See above post by null and void.
Null and void, many thanks for that post!
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Null and void is correct in this statement.
Children born abroad of American parents are, by law, citizens.
Null and void is correct in this statement.
A Natural Born Citizen needs no law to declare them a citizen.
However, the implication that a citizen is also a natural born citizen is incorrect.
The only way a candidate is a natural born citizen is if both parents were American born.
The founder’s requirement for a natural born presidential candidate refers to the parents’ place of birth, not the candidate’s place of birth.
The reason the founders added the natural born requirement was to avoid any possibility of a conflict of allegiance between America and the country of a parent’s birth. The founders didn’t place that same restriction on any other elected office.
There is an aspect of a presidential election that may not be readily apparent. There is no government appointed entity tasked with verifying the validity of a candidate’s birth. The constitutional conditions that a candidate must fulfill are based on the honor system. The verification is up to the voters to sort out. A candidate who is a convicted murderer, a serial rapist, or a felon for any reason can run for the office of president IF he is a natural born citizen over 35 years of age. It is up to the voters to decide to elect him or not.