Re: Arnold will run!

From: Brett Paatsch (bpaatsch@bigpond.net.au)
Date: Thu Aug 07 2003 - 12:16:04 MDT

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    John K Clark writes:

    > > "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."
    >
    > Brett Paatsch" <bpaatsch@bigpond.net.au>
    >
    > > So on my reading, (and contrary to what I thought I knew),
    > > if Arnie is a US citizen and has been a resident for 14 years
    > > he is not precluded.
    >
    > Huh? It says nobody born outside the USA can become president unless he
    was
    > naturalized when the constitution was adopted, is older than 35, and lived
    > in the USA for at least 14 years. Arnold was not born in the USA, so
    unless
    > he's about 200 years old and was naturalized when the constitution was
    > adopted he can't be president.

    Yeah I saw that interpretation (the more probably one) after I posted
    hence the follow up post A Possible correction etc. I won't repeat what
    I say there here. Its still there :-)

    But note what happens if you see the OR applying to more
    or less of the whole sentence and the second comma as just
    punctuation for a breathing space.

    Regards,
    Brett



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