Is Kamala Harris Eligible to be VP? Am I a Racist for Asking? (Read 1096 times)

Flapp_Jackson

Is Kamala Harris Eligible to be VP? Am I a Racist for Asking?
« on: September 08, 2020, 05:37:51 PM »
Some Questions for Kamala Harris About Eligibility

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The Constitution says that a vice-president must meet the same eligibility requirements as the president: "[N]o person
constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States."
Article II of the Constitution specifies "[n]o person except a natural born citizen...shall be eligible to the office of President."

Senator Kamala Harris is not, from a constitutional standpoint, a natural-born citizen of the United States. She was born
on American soil, but that’s not enough to qualify for birthright citizenship. Here is the actual language of the 14th Amendment
(emphasis mine throughout):“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are
citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” It’s not enough just to be born on U.S. soil. You must both
be born on U.S. soil and be subject “to the jurisdiction thereof” when it happens.

Sen. Harris’ father is a Jamaican national and her mother is from India, and neither was a naturalized U.S. citizen at the time
of Harris' birth in 1964. In fact, neither of them was even a “lawful permanent resident” of the U.S. at the time. This means that
she is not a "natural born citizen"—and therefore this also means she is ineligible for the office of vice-president.

https://www.afa.net/the-stand/culture/2020/08/kamala-harris-is-not-eligible-to-be-vice-president-of-the-united-states/


https://www.newsweek.com/some-questions-kamala-harris-about-eligibility-opinion-1524483


The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw

eyeeatingfish

Re: Is Kamala Harris Eligible to be VP? Am I a Racist for Asking?
« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2020, 09:13:48 PM »
This argument is making up distinctions in the constitution that don't exist. The constitution never defines what a natural born citizen is and there is no real grounds to suggest that being born on US soil doesn't count as being a natural born citizen.