The best interests of the country will then come into play. Especially in a time of war and International unrest. How so many crises could suddenly surface during one's presidency (Bush), is very unusual and skeptics would suggest a patient, calculated enemy within.
You're more "in tune" on this subject than I.
However, I would be surprised if this generates more than a hoarse audience of the very diligent few. If nothing else was going on of great magnitude, then maybe I would think otherwise.
In regard to the main culprits, the media: There should be a Code of Ethics for all journalists/ News (disclosure of commentary aside) in which the individual or collective individuals are held responsible and punishable under a designated committe of their peers as in other fields dealing with distributing information to the public-say in real estate, law, insurance etc. In journalism there seems only a "voluntarily" code.
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In the U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 1, it states:
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.
Title 8 of the U.S. Code explains what “natural born citizen” means:
▪ Anyone born inside the United States.
▪ Any Indian or Eskimo born in the United States, provided being a citizen of the U.S. does not impair the person's status as a citizen of the tribe.
▪ Anyone born outside the United States, both of whose parents are citizens of the U.S., as long as one parent has lived in the U.S.
▪ Anyone born outside the United States, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year and the other parent is a U.S. national.
▪ Anyone born in a U.S. possession, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year.
▪ Anyone found in the U.S. under the age of five, whose parentage cannot be determined, as long as proof of non-citizenship is not provided by age 21.
▪Anyone born outside the United States, if one parent is an alien and as long as the other parent is a citizen of the U.S. who lived in the U.S. for at least five years (with military and diplomatic service included in this time).
▪ A final, historical condition: a person born before 5/24/1934 of an alien father and a U.S. citizen mother who has lived in the U.S.
Anyone falling into these categories is considered natural-born, and is eligible to run for President or Vice President. These provisions allow the children of military families to be considered natural-born. For example, separate sections of the U.S. Code address territories that the United States has acquired over time, such as Puerto Rico, Alaska, Hawaii, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam. And the law contains one other section about the Panama Canal Zone and the nation of Panama. It states that anyone born in the Canal Zone or in Panama itself, on or after February 26, 1904, to a mother and/or father who is a United States citizen, was "declared" to be a United States citizen.
Because this section doesn’t carry the words "natural-born" or "citizen at birth," this became an issue for Sen. John McCain when he ran for president in 2000. But that issue was resolved when it was found that McCain was considered a natural-born citizen under 8 USC 1401(c): "a person born outside of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents both of whom are citizens of the United States and one of whom has had a residence in the United States or one of its outlying possessions, prior to the birth of such person.