After so much debate, investigative, fabricating and bashing about being born in America or not, I think it’s about time that our congress take up this issue in such serious ways, and even amend it to reflect the true realities of our age. The idea that one has to be born in America, to be a president, is simply erroneous , in the sense that it denies some Americans the right to seek the office. I doubt if the forefathers foresaw a time when American soldiers would have to move to Germany or Korea with his family, and while there, give birth to children. When an American independent contractor could settle in any remote part of the world and have children and later return to America with these children. Or even further, an American family could be on vacation outside of the country and give birth to a child. Does any of these possibilities make these children less of Americans, and therefore prohibit them from aspiring to run for the office of the presidency? I do not think it should, and it’s about time we amend the constitution to include all children of American citizens, and maybe include clauses that require them to have lived continuously in America 30 yrs or so prior to running for this office. The constitution holds that a child born by an American citizen is equally a citizen, if I am right. Times have changed and births can happen anywhere. We cannot discriminate against any American simply because his or her mother was not within the territory when he or she slid out of the womb.
Born in America and the Presidency.
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