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um, not even all US-born citizens are allowed to run for President. i know his because i fall into this category. citizens born abroad may not run for President. a candidate must be born on US soil. (I think this is kind of weak, especially if both parents are US citizens).



Not true.

"Natural-Born" does not mean you were born within the US. It means that you must have been a citizen of the US at birth. The fact that both your parents were US citizens means that you were a US citizen at birth, and therefore are eligible to run for President.

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I do not see it as illogical that a candiate must be born a US citizen. The logic behind it is that the candiate puts America 1st, and not some other country. Just because he/she has lived here for 40 years doesnt mean much. you dont know where his "true" sympathies in his heart lie. there are plenty of people who have lived here for that long but still maintain loyalist feelings toward their homeland just like there are many Americans who are/have lived abroad for this long and still put American before the country they live in.



So it makes sense that a child born to US parents in France, is educated in France, grows up in France, and who lives in France for 40 years can run for President?

By law even that childs parents could have lived their entire life in France, so long as one spent at least one year in the US.

So you could be a 4th Generation Frenchmen and still be eligible to run for President of the US as long as at least one parent in every generation spent just one year in the US. And yet if you were born in France to French-citizen parents and moved to the US the day after you were born you could never become President, despite living in the US your entire life minus one day.

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