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Arnold Schwarzeneggar has his Birth Certificate and says he wants be President
Posted on Tuesday, May 04, 2010 9:32:39 AM by Retired Intelligence Officer
Arnold Schwarzeneggar wishes that but he can’t because he says the Constitution will not allow a foreign born person to become President unless the US Constitution is changed or amended to allow it to happen. As we all know no foreign born citizens, native born citizens or naturalized citizens can run for president. Only a Natural Born Citizen can be President. Amending the constitution so a foreign born citizen could run for president would seriously put this nation at risk from a person who was born with allegiances to another country. It would be a national security risk. John Jay wrote this in a letter to George Washington when the Constitution was being framed for adoption warning Washington of the ramifications of a foreigner running the country:
“Permit me to hint, whether it would be wise and reasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expressly that the Commander in Chief of the American army shall not be given to nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen.”
The result of that letter prompted the Grandfather Clause in Article 2 Section 1 which is this:
“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.”
It has been that way and it should remain that way. It is a safeguard that we do not have anything but a Natural Born Citizen with American Citizen parents (plural) to be President with allegiance to the United States only. All Presidents to this day except at the framing of the constitution have had both parents which were American Citizens or Naturalized American Citizens. Am I right about this last sentence?
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