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> A proposed Amendment, To overturn part of Article II....
Aquilla
post Mar 5 2004, 11:07 PM
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Article II of the United States Constitution states, in part the following.....

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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.



For purposes of debate the following amendment is proposed......

"This amendment eliminates the Article II requirement in the United States Constitution that a person be a natural born citizen in order to be eligible to hold the office of the President of the United States and replaces it with the following:
Any citizen who has attained the age of thirty five years and and has been a citizen of the United States for a period of at least twenty years and been a resident for fourteen of those years within the United States shall be eligible to hold the office of President."

Simple question for debate......

Do you vote YAY or NAY on this proposal?

This post has been edited by Aquilla: Mar 5 2004, 11:12 PM
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Aquilla   A proposed Amendment   Mar 5 2004, 11:07 PM
CruisingRam   Nay   Mar 5 2004, 11:17 PM
Jaime   No one liners. Support your answer with a constr...   Mar 5 2004, 11:24 PM
Artemise   I am against repealing Article II. My reasons ar...   Mar 6 2004, 02:14 AM
FargoUT   I find this to be a ridiculous inclusion and I wou...   Mar 6 2004, 02:47 AM
amf   I believe the answer is that the child qualifies ...   Mar 6 2004, 03:44 AM
Artemise   Fargo, please read the article I linked. You use t...   Mar 6 2004, 05:37 AM
Aquilla   Just a point of clarification here. I did not po...   Mar 6 2004, 06:38 AM
quarkhead   I would vote yay. I was born on foreign soil to tw...   Mar 6 2004, 08:39 AM
Cadman   No matter which side of the aisle proposed it I wo...   Mar 6 2004, 09:44 AM
Artemise   Aquilla, I had no idea of your leanings towards (d...   Mar 6 2004, 10:32 AM
Wertz   One of the factors which may well have influenced ...   Mar 6 2004, 12:16 PM
Aquilla   I'm not so sure that I do support this amendm...   Mar 6 2004, 04:49 PM
lee   I support the proposition of an amendment includin...   Mar 7 2004, 07:21 AM
Julian   Shouldn't you be less worried about where the...   Mar 7 2004, 07:45 PM
Victoria Silverwolf   It's very interesting to me that there is a wi...   Mar 9 2004, 06:42 AM
slim   I don't see the difference between a person ...   Mar 9 2004, 11:10 AM
jkun17   I do not think a foreigner should be allowed to ru...   Mar 13 2004, 12:48 AM
GrumpyCoyote   You can not be a foreigner and a citizen in the s...   Mar 23 2004, 06:52 AM
the Weatherman   I am reminded of the argument some time ago about ...   Mar 23 2004, 12:29 PM
nebraska29   I would vote "nay" I know that some Rep...   Apr 7 2004, 02:34 AM
SirVLCIV   Yes. I'm a citizen of the US, despite being b...   Apr 7 2004, 02:55 AM
Aquilla   Perhaps you should read my citation earlier in th...   Apr 7 2004, 06:39 AM
AuthorMusician   Nay. Why? Just because that's the way we do...   Apr 7 2004, 10:10 AM
Paladin Elspeth   I am very worried, no, angry about the fact that...   Apr 7 2004, 10:20 AM
PoxAmericana   I oppose changing it because unless we completely ...   Apr 8 2004, 01:13 AM


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