Posted on 08/30/2023 10:02:25 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Kamala Harris, Nikki Haley, and Vivek Ramaswamy are not eligible to serve as president of the United States. Nor are Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. Why? They are not “natural born citizens,” which is one of the presidential requirements outlined in the U.S. Constitution. Making that claim, of course, immediately prompts a response of, “Of course they are natural born citizens! What are you, a racist?” But those who are eager to ridicule and condemn such a statement of ineligibility are merely demonstrating their ignorance of the term natural born citizen. What is important, however, is not what television pundits (or “pundints,” as they often incorrectly refer to themselves) believe the term means, but what the Founding Fathers understood the term to mean when they decreed the following:
“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.”
Probably close to 100 percent of Americans alive today believe the term natural born citizen simply means born in the United States of America. But that is not what the term meant to the authors of the U.S. Constitution.
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“But that is not what the term meant to the authors of the U.S. Constitution.”
Except what the term meant to the authors doesn’t actually carry legal weight. What the term means to the last Supreme Court justices that bothered to rule on it is what actually carries weight.
Nobody in authority will ever enforce your interpretation, as evidenced by the 2 Obama terms.
That bridge has been crossed.
Obama was not qualified either.
didnt the founding fathers exempt themselves because they did not meet the nbc requirement?
Yes, but...
Wake me when you’re on the SCOTUS.
In the mean time, this is stupid.
Kamala Harris, Nikki Haley, and Vivek Ramaswamy are not eligible to serve as president of the United States.
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Yeah. Right. And neither is Barack Obama. Oh wait. He DID serve. Which means this NBC business is still a load of garbage.
Why can’t you people wake up to reality?
agreed on the constitutional law, any genuine legal scholar knows this and knows it quite well
I did not know about Haley.
I knew of course about Obama and Harris and Cruz (alas!) and a couple others
thanks for the information
The dimrats tried to disqualify McCain because he was born in the canal zone although both parents were American citizens and his father was assigned to a US military installation there.
That battle was fought and lost with Obummer.
Can you cite EXACTLY where that definition is in the Constitution? A lot of people just make up stuff.
Subverting Article 2 Section 1 is not stupid. It’s a Constitutional national security matter.
So, anyone who has a parent born outside the U.S., is not eligible to be president?
This is a great explanation. I’d like to hear a counter-argument, and hear it debated. But this is a very solid explanation.
The only argument I know of is that SCOTUS under Roberts wants little to do with electoral questions. Roberts’ stance of “solve it at the ballot box” (like Obamacare) appears to be the prevailing view.
It’s this kind of thing that makes our side look like fools arguing over something even if it were true won’t change the facts m.
I haven’t done the research but how many of the very early presidents were not only born here but so were their parents ??
I remember when Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected Governor of California and it was universally recognized he could never run for president
That does not matter to Macho MAGA Man.
He obviously likes to keep beating a dead horse.
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside."
is a clarification of Article 2 Section 1's:
"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"
Of course, we're used to talking about Article 14 in terms of anchor babies not being citizens (because their parents are subject to the authority of their home country). But it's possible to interpret Article 1's "natural born citizen" text in the same light (qualifications of birth citizenship for president isn't based on where you were born, but if your parents were citizens when you were born).
Frankly, I'd rather win the argument with the Article 14 interpretation, both for prez and for birthright citizenship (no anchor babies), than win the argument over the home soil a candidate was born at.
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