From: Brett Paatsch (bpaatsch@bigpond.net.au)
Date: Fri Aug 08 2003 - 22:13:32 MDT
Mez writes:
> From: Brett Paatsch [mailto:bpaatsch@bigpond.net.au]
> > Under Article II [The Presidency]
> > Section 1 [Election, Installation, Removal]
> >
> > "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."
>
> Arnold can not become president of the US without a constitutional
> change. What's confusing you is the comma between "citizen of the
> United States" and "at the time of the adoption of this Constitution".
> That comma is an anachronism. If the phrase were rewritten today it
> wouldn't be there.
>
> What this clause is legally interpreted as meaning is that the only
> people who can become president are:
>
> 1) Those born in the US.
>
> 2) Those who were citizens of the US when the Constitution was
> adopted.
>
> As a US citizen not born here, I'm quite aware of this restriction. :)
You'd have my vote (if I was a US citizen) and were able to
run against the other candidates recently canvassed on this list
Mex. But that not's really as much of a compliment as it might
be ;-)
Regards,
Brett
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