The ‘Natural Born Citizen’ Issue & American Presidents

By Ammoland

by Alan Korwin
The Uninvited Ombudsman
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Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- Can just anyone be elected President of the United States?

No, of course not. Foreigners for example are not eligible. The Constitution spells out the eligibility standards:

Article II, Section 1:

“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.”

As you can see, Article II distinguishes between Citizens and natural born Citizens. Although we know the Founding Fathers used language with extreme care, this is now raising a ruckus. I’m a researcher, I’ve done the legwork, so let me set the record straight.

The answers we need are right there in the historical record. This is not a judiciable matter for courts as has been recently suggested, along with other modern-day distractions …Read the Rest

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