“didnt the founding fathers exempt themselves because they did not meet the nbc requirement?”
I see... They were all born in a British colony, none of them qualified with that logic. Is that from the Federalist papers?
86 posted on 08/30/2023 11:14:29 AM PDT by Clutch Martin
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They were all born in a British colony, none of them qualified with that logic. Is that from the Federalist papers?
It's in the Constitution. If they were at least citizens at the time the Constitution was adopted, they're exempted from needing to be natural born. Here's the clause:
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