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frozen11b | 7 years ago
Place of birth does not matter for the House or Senate. Only need to be a US citizen.
For the President it's a "higher standard" you must be a native born Citizen.
frozen11b | 7 years ago
Place of birth does not matter for the House or Senate. Only need to be a US citizen.
For the President it's a "higher standard" you must be a native born Citizen.
ghaff|7 years ago
Which isn't 100% defined and legal scholars can and do argue the edge cases based on lots of things including very old British common law antecedents. The consensus seems to equal citizen from birth although some disagree.
InitialLastName|7 years ago
"No Person except a natural born Citizen ... shall be eligible to the Office of President"
Natural born means "citizen at birth", not "born in the US"> One can also be a citizen at birth (under certain circumstances) by having parent(s) who are U.S. citizens. Ted Cruz unequivocably meets this standard.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Two_of_the_United_Stat...
wool_gather|7 years ago