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What were the founding fathers reasonings behind this?
« on: April 30, 2010, 12:06:46 PM »
“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 is only one exception such as in John McCain's... "They based this clause on the following; “Congress, in which a number of Framers sat, provided in the Naturalization act of 1790 that ’‘the children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond the sea, . . . shall be considered as natural born citizens. . . .’’ 96 This phrasing followed the literal terms of British statutes, beginning in 1350, under which persons born abroad, whose parents were both British subjects, would enjoy the same rights of inheritance as those born in England; beginning with laws in 1709 and 1731, these statutes expressly provided that such persons were natural-born subjects of the crown.”


My feeling is that if we give people the option to be American Citizens, we should give them all the rights.  Give me one valid reason they shouldn't have the right to be?  There are millions of foreign born citizens there are worth more than the natural born pieces of shite we have here.  I say let the people vote on it.  Give them a chance and of the people say no, then let it be.
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Re: What were the founding fathers reasonings behind this?
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2010, 12:21:41 PM »
“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 is only one exception such as in John McCain's... "They based this clause on the following; “Congress, in which a number of Framers sat, provided in the Naturalization act of 1790 that ’‘the children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond the sea, . . . shall be considered as natural born citizens. . . .’’ 96 This phrasing followed the literal terms of British statutes, beginning in 1350, under which persons born abroad, whose parents were both British subjects, would enjoy the same rights of inheritance as those born in England; beginning with laws in 1709 and 1731, these statutes expressly provided that such persons were natural-born subjects of the crown.”


My feeling is that if we give people the option to be American Citizens, we should give them all the rights.  Give me one valid reason they shouldn't have the right to be?  There are millions of foreign born citizens there are worth more than the natural born pieces of shite we have here.  I say let the people vote on it.  Give them a chance and of the people say no, then let it be.

I would think it would be to keep someone from becoming famous elsewhere from becoming a citizen and simply running for office and winning for no reason or whatever. I mean, in that case, they would probably love their homeland more, and thus not do all they could for this country.

However, even if it was amended, it would take years for people to vote for a foreigner.