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To: backwoods-engineer

Qualifications for the presidency are:
Age 35
Born in the US

Where a candidates parents were born is immaterial.


113 posted on 01/27/2012 8:17:52 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Eh ?)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Qualifications for the presidency are: Age 35 Born in the US Where a candidates parents were born is immaterial.

You deserve a little zot-action, too.

Art 2, Section 1 of our blessed Constitution:

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 two categories are bolded. There are none more of the 2nd category. They are all dead. Hence, Presidents these days must be a natural born citizen. The case law is clear. A person's parents must be citizens at the time of the person's birth to be a natural born citizen.

You lose.

122 posted on 01/27/2012 8:27:03 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Any politician who holds that the state accords rights is an oathbreaker and an "enemy... domestic.")
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Qualifications for the presidency are: Age 35 Born in the US

Here is what the Constitution says!

"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." I don't see a single word in that about WHERE someone might be born!

Perhaps it is a Penumbra or something!

If your are born of parents (plural) who are themselves citizens you are a Natural born citizen (eligible to hold the office of president) and could have been born on a sailing ship in the middle of the Pacific ocean!

123 posted on 01/27/2012 8:27:52 AM PST by Bigun ("The most fearsome words in the English language are I'm from the government and I'm here to help!")
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Qualifications for the presidency are:
Age 35
Born in the US
Where a candidates parents were born is immaterial.




One of the most rediculous statement I've ever heard. Would you care to provide a reference to where you received that nugget of wisdom? LOL.

Did you know that the vast majority of the world does not allow jus soli? That means in the vast majority of the world, you are not even a citizen of the country unless your parents are it's citizens!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jus_soli_world.png
125 posted on 01/27/2012 8:30:11 AM PST by MMaschin
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

You forgot “Natural Born Citizen”.


149 posted on 01/27/2012 9:00:10 AM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell)
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