To: Jeff Winston
Every one of them served as United States President while simultaneously holding citizenship with France. You overlook the fact that they were declared in the Constitution to be eligible for the office of President, because they were residents of the United States at the signing of the Constitution.
But of course you knew that already, so one might as why you would make such an ill guided post.
228 posted on
08/19/2013 11:49:13 PM PDT by
itsahoot
(It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
To: itsahoot
You overlook the fact that they were declared in the Constitution to be eligible for the office of President, because they were residents of the United States at the signing of the Constitution.No. The grandfather clause for Presidential eligibility was never used. And this seems to be agreed on by literally all real historians who have ever commented on the matter throughout all of American history.
Ah, but all the historians who've ever lived are idiots. Yeah, I know.
See posts 130 and 210 for more details.
306 posted on
08/20/2013 8:34:41 AM PDT by
Jeff Winston
(Yeah, I think I could go with Cruz in 2016.)
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