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To: Kansas58
No. No where does the 14th amendment speak to natural born citizenship. The 14th Amendment only speaks to mere citizenship and the founders of the Constitution made it clear those two designations are to be distinct. The only citizen that can become president is one who was a citizen at the time of the adoption of the Constitution. Since no one alive today can fulfill that requirement, only natural born citizens may become president now.

Even liberal Wikipedia got it more right than you:

"Section 1 of Article Two of the United States Constitution sets forth the eligibility requirements for serving as President of the United 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.
The grandfather provision of the "natural born Citizen" clause provided an exception to the "natural born" requirement for those persons who were citizens at the time of the adoption of the Constitution. (The first several Presidents prior to Martin van Buren, as well as potential Presidential candidates, were born as British subjects in British America before the American Revolution and this grandfather clause would cover them.)[1]

Additionally, the Twelfth Amendment states that: "[N]o person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States." The Fourteenth Amendment does not use the phrase "natural born citizen". It does provide that "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." [emphasis mine]

The constitutional requirement of a natural born citizen president has never been superseded by any other amendment or law.

99 posted on 04/30/2011 10:20:17 PM PDT by Waryone (RINOs, Elites, and Socialists - on the endangered list, soon to become extinct.)
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To: Waryone

The Resolution in the Senate, regarding McCain being eligible for POTUS, DID mention that both of his parents were citizens.
That Resolution did NOT state that this was required.

You are factually wrong.


144 posted on 04/30/2011 10:56:07 PM PDT by Kansas58
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To: Waryone

The Resolution in the Senate, regarding McCain being eligible for POTUS, DID mention that both of his parents were citizens.
That Resolution did NOT state that this was required.

You are factually wrong.


145 posted on 04/30/2011 10:56:11 PM PDT by Kansas58
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