Anonymous ID: a548b2 Jan. 19, 2019, 9:25 a.m. No.4821149   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>1164

Kamala Harris's parents were not born in America so is she eligible to run for president?

 

 

The Constitution places certain restrictions on those who may be eligible to the Office of the President of the United States. These eligibility requirements can be found in Article two, Section one, Paragraph five of the constitution, which reads as follows:

 

"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."

 

Naturalization Acts starting with the American Naturalization Act of 1790 and following naturalization acts such as those of 1855 have recognized that those "โ€ฆborn outside of the borders or beyond the control of the United States,โ€ฆ,to a US citizen shall be considered as a natural born Citizen of the United States."

 

Following the literal translation of the language of the Constitution and the following naturalization acts, you do not have to have been born in the United States. However, you do have to have been born to at least one parent who holds citizenship with the USA.