WASHINGTON – A U.S. senator has weighed in on the continuing controversy over Barack Obama’s eligibility for office by saying he has never seen proof the new president was actually born in Hawaii.
“Well, his father was Kenyan and they said he was born in Hawaii, but I haven’t seen any birth certificate,” Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., told constituents in Cullman County. “You have to be born in America to be president.”
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WND has reported on multiple legal challenges to Obama’s status as a “natural born citizen.” The Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, states, “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.”
Some question whether he was actually born in Hawaii, as he insists. If he was born out of the country, Obama’s American mother, the suits contend, was too young at the time of his birth to confer American citizenship to her son under the law at the time.
Other challenges have focused on Obama’s citizenship through his father, a Kenyan subject to the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom at the time of his birth, thus making him a dual citizen. The cases contend the framers of the Constitution excluded dual citizens from qualifying as natural born.
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Is it really so difficult to understand the difference between Natural Born and Native Born? I was born in NY but due to my parents being immigrants of only 2 years, am not Natural Born and therefore eligible for the Presidency. There are good reasons for the language in the Constitution. When the country was newly established there were exceptions provided since none of the early founders could NOT be Natural born, not enough time had passed. It’s all right there all one has do is read.
Until recently, (prior to the ’08 election) Hawaii itself did not accept the “certification” of birth vs a “certificate” of birth for the land purchase program for Native Hawaiians.
Correction: “since none of the early founders could NOT be Natural born” > since none of the early founders could be Natural born. A generation would have to pass for the country to have true Natural born citizens.