Schwarzenegger 2020: Equal Opportunity to Govern

[RyanW]

Originally Posted by Anthony

The constitution explicitly gives congress the power of defining a uniform rule of naturalization. It is generally accepted that this includes the right to define conditions (in excess of those specified by the 14th amendment) that allow someone to have birthright citizenship. That does not mean Congress has explicit authority to define natural-born citizen, except to the extent it interacts with the power to define naturalization.

And while theoretically legal, extending birthright citizenship retroactively to someone born to foreign nationals outside the US would realistically be rejected on a massive scale. If the Alien Space Bats can get that through, they can probably just have him declared emperor by acclamation.

A constitutional amendment that repeals the requirement, or a finding that the 14th amendment already had, at least has a veneer of plausibility if you don't look too closely.