Is Louisiana's Gov Bobby Jindal Constitutionally Qualified to be President?

[Lonestar_logic]

Is he? His parents were born in India.

Where was he born?

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.

 

[Rinata]

Is he? His parents were born in India.

Why wouldn't he be?? He was born in Baton Rouge. I don't like him, but I hope that the libs will never copy the nuts that say Obama wasn't born here. That would really piss me off.

 

[Toro]

What is wrong with these people?

They're almost as bad as the twoofers.

 

[rightwinger]

I just read the Constitution to be sure...

Nowhere in the document does it say that Bobby Jindal can be President

 

[Rinata]

His parents were legal immigrants, he was born in the US. He is can be President.

Wrong. His parents were not born in the US which makes him just a US Citizen but not a Natural Born Citizen. The only time a US Citizen could be President was at the Adoption of the Constitution as stated here.


"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."

Oh, geez!!! Here we go.

 

[CrimsonWhite]

Wrong. His parents were not born in the US which makes him just a US Citizen but not a Natural Born Citizen. The only time a US Citizen could be President was at the Adoption of the Constitution as stated here.


"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."

You dumb ass. Reading is fundamental. It reads a natural born citizen or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution. The law allowed for those that were obviously British Citizens before the Constitution was written.

You made yourself out to be a complete douche.

At the time of the adoption of the Constitution yes a Citizen could become President. That was why the founders added a Grandfather Clause to allow a Citizen President. After that no person of foreign blood could become President. Your Parents (plural) had to be born in the USA like McCains which made him a Natural Born Citizen. Jindal is just a US Citizen but not Natural Born Citizen.

Schneider v. Rusk
Perkins v. Elg
Rogers v. Bellei

United States v. Wong Kim Ark is the best known case and the ruling is as follows.

It thus clearly appears that by the law of England for the last three centuries, beginning before the settlement of this country, and continuing to the present day, aliens, while residing in the dominions possessed by the crown of England, were within the allegiance, the obedience, the faith or loyalty, the protection, the power, and the jurisdiction of the English sovereign; and therefore every child born in England of alien parents was a natural-born subject, unless the child of an ambassador or other diplomatic agent of a foreign state, or of an alien enemy in hostile occupation of the place where the child was born. III. The same rule was in force in all the English colonies upon this continent down to the time of the Declaration of Independence, and in the United States afterwards, and continued to prevail under the constitution as originally established.

You lose.

 

[Lonestar_logic]

You dumb ass. Reading is fundamental. It reads a natural born citizen or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution. The law allowed for those that were obviously British Citizens before the Constitution was written.

You made yourself out to be a complete douche.

At the time of the adoption of the Constitution yes a Citizen could become President. That was why the founders added a Grandfather Clause to allow a Citizen President. After that no person of foreign blood could become President. Your Parents (plural) had to be born in the USA like McCains which made him a Natural Born Citizen. Jindal is just a US Citizen but not Natural Born Citizen.

Back that up with case law. I dare you.

He can't he's wrong and his pride won't let him admit it.

According to Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution, no person except a “natural born citizen” (citizen at birth) shall be eligible to the office of President. Until 1866, the citizenship status of persons born in the United States was not defined in the Constitution or in any federal statute. However, under the common law rule of jus soli -- the law of the soil -- persons born in the United States generally acquired U.S. citizenship at birth.

 

[rdean]

Why are you picking on poor little Piyush Jindal?

He's not white. That makes him suspect. Besides, he believes in "magical creation" over science. Didn't we already have one of those?

I heard he was a Muslim too. He probably has terrorist connections.

No, he's definitely a Christian. Like Obama.

 

[uscitizen]

A moot thread since Jindal will never have a chance at becoming president.

 

[ihopehefails]

We will ask for his birth certificate.

 

[PatekPhilippe]

Actually, it is.

It is not exactly quite a "law."

A scientific "theory" has been tested and replicated in accordance with the scientific method. It is not the same as a surmise.

Ahhhh....but a theory also is an assumption based on limited information or knowledge; a conjecture. Example is the "Unified Field Theory".

 

[xotoxi]

Is he? His parents were born in India.

Your name should be US Army Retarded.

 

[xotoxi]

I just read the Constitution to be sure...

Nowhere in the document does it say that Bobby Jindal can be President

In fact, I don't even see the word "Bobby" in the entire Constitution.

 

[Cecilie1200]

Oh, for the love of God. Is there any reason to think that Bobby Jindal was born anywhere other than the US? No? Then he can be President under the Constitution, assuming he meets the other requirements.

It really is that simple.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Is he? His parents were born in India.

Are his parents running for President?

 

[Liability]

Oh, for the love of God. Is there any reason to think that Bobby Jindal was born anywhere other than the US? No? Then he can be President under the Constitution, assuming he meets the other requirements.

It really is that simple.

Yes. It is that simple.

Good point.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

We will ask for his birth certificate.

It's already been provided, as required, when he ran for Governor of Louisiana. And the state didn't seal it either.

 

[bodecea]

Is he? His parents were born in India.

Look at his name....suspiciously foreign.

 

[Navy1960]

14th Amendmnt

Sec. 1.

Section 1. 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. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

May 22, 2008 ... Born Piyush Jindal in Baton Rouge, LA. USA in 1971

Enough said. doesn't matter where his parents are from.

 

[VaYank5150]

Oh come on....with a name like Piysuh Jindal, he HAS to be a terrorist, right?