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Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 6:08:26 PM by TigerClaws
Tucson, Arizona (CNN)
-- The Constitution provides that only "natural born citizens" can be president. Never has this obscure restriction been more controversial; in spite of conclusive evidence that President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, "birthers" insist that he is ineligible because, they claim, he was really born in Kenya or Indonesia.
Meanwhile, because his opponent in the 2008 election, Sen. John McCain, was born in the Panama Canal Zone, some believe that he was ineligible to run.
Unfortunately, the text of the Constitution does not define natural born citizenship, and neither the Supreme Court nor Congress has weighed in on the question. This much is clear. The term "natural born citizen" was borrowed from the English concept of "natural born subject," which came from Calvin's Case, a 1608 decision.
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