Black Aeronaut Wrote:The entire thing behind the 'Natural Born Citizen' is to prevent a person of foreign birth (and therefore a person potentially influenced by other governments) from occupying the single most powerful position in the US government. Prudent, really, when you think of it. ...I don't know how well that theory holds up in real-world application, though. Consider that Christopher John Boyce, Jonathan Pollard, Robert Lipka, Brian Patrick Regan (and more but not all of the other people from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_St ... y_breaches]this list), and Edward Snowden were all born in the USA. Foreign or domestic birth isn't a particularly good indicator of trustworthiness (if it was, Canada wouldn't currently have a Defense Minister who was born in India).
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012