Klarinet Archive - Posting 000332.txt from 2003/11

From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bush is over here - - -
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:29:18 -0500

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 21:43:50 -0800, "Kevin Fay" <kevinfay@-----.com>
wrote:
>
>(For our friends outside the US, the US Constitution contains a silly little
>provision stating that only natural-born US citizens can be President. It's
>primary purpose was to keep Alexander Hamilton from ever becoming
>President - apparently no one could foresee the Vice President killing him
>with a pistol just a few years later.)

That's a fun theory, but I don't think it is true. At the time the
constitution went into effect, there WERE no "naturalized citizens",
including George Washington. There couldn't be, because the country
didn't exist.

The presidential eligibility clause says you either have to be a
naturalized citizen, OR a citizen at the time the constutition was
adopted. Hamilton was a resident at that time, and had been for 14 years,
so I believe he would have been eligible to be president.
--
- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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