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The Issue:Should the United States Constitution be amended to allow a
naturalized citizen to be elected president of the United States? Use clam evidence and reasoning

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Answer:

No

Explanation:

In 1787, the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia wrote the U.S. Constitution and established the eligibility requirements of the Office of the Presidency makes clear that to be president, a person must be at least 35 years old and have lived in the U.S. for at least 14 years. Importantly, the delegates to the Philadelphia Convention added a clause requiring that the  president be a “natural born citizen.” The natural-born citizen clause has been traditionally interpreted to allow only those who were born within the United States to be president. It 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