Yup, yup. Kind of eerie, to be mid-90s stuff, when they have such a mid-00s/TV series 24 vibe.
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All Conservative Dad Spy Heroes Are Named Jack. Only Some Have What It Takes... To Become President.
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Only the ones who are natural born citizens over the age of 35 with 14 years of residency in the US, right?
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I didn't know there was a 14 year US residency requirement. Are you sure about that?
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @bazzalisk and
Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5pic.twitter.com/dNT5J2FuKR
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Hunh. I thought they had to be local-born no matter what. Go figure.
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Replying to @ScatterheadF @BootlegGirl and
They do, you have to BOTH be natural born AND have been a resident for 14 years (so if you were born here but moved as a child and grew up in another country you're ineligible)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ScatterheadF and
BUT it's probably the case (only called into question recently, by Trump/birthers) that you can be the President if you were a birthright citizen born to US citizens abroad
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
I believe there was at least one President who this actually applied to, although I could be wrong, but if so it was in a country that didn't automatically grant citizenship to people born there.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @ScatterheadF and
There is no actual President who was born outside of US soil, although the first few Presidents were obviously born before the US existed and grandfathered in
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The controversial thing is Article 2 says a natural born citizen OR someone who was a citizen at the time the US was created, which was specifically intended to grandfather in Alexander Hamilton, who was technically an "immigrant" (born on the island of Nevis in the Caribbean)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Of course, contrary to Lin Manuel Miranda's interpretation of Hamilton's life story, it really isn't clear that anyone actually saw moving from one British colony to another British colony as "immigration" at the time
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Hamilton himself almost certainly didn't see it that way considering later in life he wrote an essay railing against immigrants taking jobs away from citizens
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