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[โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

I predict Elon Musk will be the next president.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not possible, wasn't born in the US

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't have much faith anyone in power will care. Just not bothering with questions of legality seems to be their modus operandii.

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  • Article II, Section 1, Clause 5:

    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.

    The Framers appear to have adopted the requirement that citizens be natural born citizens to ensure that the Presidentโ€™s loyalties would lie strictly with the United States.

    Oh, the irony

    By barring naturalized citizens from the presidency, the requirement of being a natural born citizen, as Justice Story explained, protects the United States from "ambitious foreigners, who might otherwise be intriguing for the office; and interposes a barrier against those corrupt interferences of foreign governments in executive elections, which have inflicted the most serious evils upon the elected monarchies of Europe."

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