Who is Eligible for the Presidency, For the Morons Out There

By which I mean the denizens of Larry Johnson’s No Quarter (no link, just like Malkin).

The Constitution does not require that a President be born in the US. It requires that a President be a natural born citizen.

Section 1 of Article II of the Constitution contains the clause:

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.

If you look at the case law, a child born to an American parent where the paternity is established before the age of majority is a natural born citizen.

All the stupidity over the borders of an image of a Hawaiian birth certificate will not change that.

Here’s hoping that Johnson gets a clue over the next few months.

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