ext_6150 ([identity profile] gehayi.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] jayes_musings 2008-12-05 06:27 pm (UTC)

This rather mad case would have made the following men ineligible for the Presidency, as their parents were not born in the United States of America:

George Washington (both parents were born in the Colony of Virginia, not the USA)

John Adams (both parents were born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony)

Thomas Jefferson (disqualified twice over--his father Peter was born in the Colony of Virginia; his mother Jane Randolph was born the Tower Hamlets of Shadwell, a neighborhood in London, England)

James Madison (both parents were born in the Colony of Virginia)

James Monroe (both parents were born in the Colony of Virginia)

John Quincy Adams (both parents born in the Colony of Massachusetts)

Andrew Jackson (both parents were Scots-Irish immigrants from Carrickfergus, Ireland)

Martin Van Buren (both parents were born in the Colony of New York)

William Henry Harrison (both parents born in the Colony of Virginia)

John Tyler (both parents born in the Colony of Virginia)

James Polk (both parents born in the Colony of North Carolina)

Zachary Taylor (both parents born in the Colony of Virginia)

Franklin Pierce (his father was born in the Colony of New Hampshire)

James Buchanan (both parents had emigrated from Ireland)

Abraham Lincoln (his father and mother were born in the Colony of Virginia)

Andrew Johnson (er...actually, we're not sure about him; his father may have been born in the Colony of North Carolina during the American Revolution--or he may have been been born in Newcastle, England)

Rutherford B. Hayes (his father was born in the Colony of Vermont)

Chester A. Arthur (his father was a preacher born in Ireland)

Woodrow Wilson (his mother was born in Carlisle, Scotland)

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That invalidates a lot of presidents. Somehow, I don't think this case is going to fly.

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