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Obama birth certificate controversy

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Barack Hussein Obama II, former community activist and senator from Illinois and current President of the United States, was allegedly[1][2][3][4][5] born in Honolulu on Aug. 4, 1961. A growing movement contends that Obama is ineligible to serve as president, stating their belief that Obama has so-far refused to release his long-form birth certificate from the state of Hawaii; indeed, they cite documentary evidence that he may have been born in Kenya. If true, Obama would be ineligible to serve his office according to the U.S. Constitution. Obama's supporters and a large swath of the Democratic Party states that Obama was born in Hawaii, and is therefore a "natural-born citizen;" they have dismissed outright the claims of the "birthers" - as they derisvely call them - as a non-issue or another conspiracy theory.

United States Constitutional requirements

The Constitution states explicitly who is to be eligible for the office of president. The physical requirements are found in Article II, Section 1:

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.


References

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ Large, high-resolution picture of his birth certificate
  3. ↑ KITV Honolulu report
  4. ↑ [2]
  5. ↑ Obama's African grandmother Sarah Hussein Obama says Barack was born in her presence in Kenya.Obama Born In Kenya? His Grandmother Says Yes, Israeli News, October 12, 2008Democrat: Obama's grandma confirms Kenyan birth, WND, October 23, 2008Audio Conversation Link