Schwarzenegger 2020: Equal Opportunity to Govern

[Daigoro]

Originally Posted by weby

His campaign message could then include the "The establisment tried to not allow you the choice of me, so show them wrong"

"I'm back!" surely.

[weby]

Originally Posted by Daigoro

"I'm back!" surely.

yes, that would be a likely delivery of the message...

[Anaraxes]

Originally Posted by weby

The natural born citizen does not seem to be defined in the constitution

The meaning is clear enough. It's not a technical term, "birth" is not some legal process needing clarification from Congress as is "naturalization", and the phrase had an established meaning in English law before the US constitution was written.

Claiming that Congress has the power to redefine any English-language word or phrase in the document to some other meaning would render it meaningless.

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[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Anaraxes

The meaning is clear enough.

Well, it does have edge cases and at least some of them are within the power of Congress to decide, but obviously ridiculous interpretations (by either Congress or the courts) are unlikely to survive. There are very few credible interpretations other than 'born a citizen', though you could make an argument that it only applies to those born a citizen as prescribed by the Constitution (i.e. only those granted citizenship via the 14th amendment, rather than those granted citizenship by statute), or some other slightly limited case.