Is a child born outside the U.S. to American parents legally eligible to become President?
Most likely yes. The U.S. Constitution (Article II, Section 1, Subsection 4) says: “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 term “natural born citizen” is not used anywhere else in the Constitution, and it has never been the subject of any federal court ruling. Hence, its exact meaning could be subject to controversy. While some have suggested that perhaps a “natural born citizen” must have been born on U.S. territory (i.e., in keeping with the definition of a citizen given in the 14th Amendment), other legal experts believe the term refers to anyone who has U.S. citizenship from the moment of his or her birth — i.e., someone who did not have to be “naturalized” because he/she wa
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