Klarinet Archive - Posting 000334.txt from 2003/11

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bush is over here - - -
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:55:54 -0500

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Tim Roberts wrote:

> 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.

Prof. John Yinger of Syracuse University has a couple of comments on this:

http://www-cpr.maxwell.syr.edu/~jyinger/facfa.html

His presentation to the House Committee on the Judiciary is at
http://www.house.gov/judiciary/ying0724.htm

Interesting reading, especially from a historical perspective.

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