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Question: Should the US Constitution be amended to allow foreign-born citizens to be elected President?
#1
Yes
 
#2
Yes, after they have been a citizen for 10 years
 
#3
Yes, after they have been a citizen for 20 years
 
#4
No
 
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minionofmidas
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« on: January 03, 2009, 04:40:13 PM »

The voters.
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2009, 05:32:05 PM »

The U.S. Constitution should be amended to allow no one to be elected president.
That doesn't take an amendment. That just takes a literalist interpretation. "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" There. You have to be, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, either a natural born Citizen (of any country), or a Citizen of the United States. Nobody alive today fulfills that requirement. Smiley
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2009, 11:02:17 AM »

Yes. Just yes.

Why not? What if a President's daughter somehow was born while on an overseas trip, maybe a two weeks early (it probably wouldn't happen, but just go along with it)?

Actually, that's not a disqualification.

If someone is traveling over Canadian airspace for example the baby becomes a Canadian citizen. Because the parents are American the child can become an American citizen very easily, but won't be born in America technically.
The text doesn't require you to be "born in the United States", but to be "a natural born citizen". The term was defined by an act of 1790. Those born abroad of American parents qualify once they have become American citizens.
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