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To: No Dems 2016
Less a citizen? No. Eligible to be Pres, no. Meeting the requirements doesn't make ya less, just not eligible. Being under 35 does not make you less a citizen, just not eligible to Pres.
47 posted on 01/14/2016 12:58:47 PM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: Theoria

“Less a citizen? No. Eligible to be Pres, no. Meeting the requirements doesn’t make ya less, just not eligible. Being under 35 does not make you less a citizen, just not eligible to Pres.”

By very definition that makes that person less of a citizen because they’re prohibited from holding the highest office of the land. Someone who is definitely prohibited from becoming president is Arnold Schwarzenegger and he isn’t happy about it, because it makes him a bit lower of a citizen than you or me. And he is someone who would like to be president, yet he can’t because his citizenship is not that of a natural born citizen.

Even though they’ll never hold that position, these citizens born abroad to an American parent(s) will have to know that their citizenship is less than that of most Americans. And that is what I believe is unfair, because they clearly are not immigrants or illegals, etc. Clearly, SCOTUS will need to weigh in on this as they will (more substantively) on ‘anchor babies’ and so forth.


55 posted on 01/14/2016 1:38:41 PM PST by No Dems 2016
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