• brsrklf@jlai.lu
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      2 months ago

      This rule makes no sense. I’m pretty sure George Washington was not born in the US.

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        2 months ago

        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.

        They made themselves some special exemptions when they wrote it.