George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, and William Henry Harrison were not born in American when it was a country. Doesn't that mean they can't be a president?
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Rockmael
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They obviously could, because they ran and were elected...
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no. no it doesn't. obviously they were presidents & the land that is now America is the same land as it was before the Constitution. & it was known as America even before then, so again I state no.
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I don't think you have to be born in the country, I think you just have to have a certain length of citizenship. Ok, I stand corrected : http://www.lawforkids.org/speakup/view_question.cfm?id=388
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By that logic, NOBODY could have been President for the first 35 years of the nation's existence. They WERE all citizens of the colonies, however.
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article 2, section 1, paragraph 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."
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