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Old 08-20-2013, 01:32 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by ken0042 View Post
One other interesting thing I read:
Only native-born U.S. citizens (or those born abroad, but only to parents who were both citizens of the U.S.) may be president of the United States

If his father was not American, that could be an issue for him right there.
The Constitution only states that the President must be a natural born citizen. His mother being born and raised in the US and moving to Canada as an adult would be enough for him to be considered a natural-born US Citizen (this is also why all the "birther" stuff was so stupid around Obama, even if he had been born in Africa, he was still a US Citizen because of his mother's citizenship).

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Originally Posted by US Consitution
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.
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