Mario Goveia wrote:
> >
> In the US the ONLY positions that a foreign born citizen like myself,
> cannot run for office is President and Vice President.
>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:50:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mervyn Lobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution.
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.
>
Mario responds:
>
Thanks for confirming that my statement above was correct.
>
I clearly cannot run for the Office of President or Vice President.
>
If you respond to this perhaps you can provide some proof that I cannot run for
any other political office in the USA.
>
