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Episode: 2327
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Title: HPR2327: A Texan's view on Why only a Native Born person can be President
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2327/hpr2327.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-19 01:20:54
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This in HPR episode 2,327 entitled Atexan's new on-wire only a native born person can be
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president.
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It is posted by AWP and in about 7 minutes long and can in an explicit flag.
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The summary is a quick talk about why America is special.
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Good day, this is JWP.
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I was listening to the monthly podcast review with Dave Morris, who is a British guy and
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can fall and lose an Irish guy.
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Talk about the American rule that says that you've got to be a native born person that
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you present in the United States.
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Well, there are some exceptions.
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If you're born in a military hospital, I believe like John McCain was born in a military
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hospital, so he still got to run for presidency.
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The thing is, the founding fathers wanted, didn't want a British stand-in or a Kenyan stand-in
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or a French stand-in for president.
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They wanted a real American who was born on U.S. soil to be president, and it was done
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back then because of the fear factor of, you know, we're going to get a British guy in,
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he's going to try to be keen or something's going to happen like that, and so that's
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why they did it, and it's incredibly hard to change the U.S. Constitution.
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It hasn't been done very much.
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They couldn't even do it for a change to say that a man is equal to a woman, so they couldn't
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even do the equal rights amendment in the Constitution in my lifetime.
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So I was born in 64, and we've had very, very few constitutional changes.
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Instead, we let the courts do everything, and this thing about where you were born
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is a really, a factor really in U.S. politics until Barack Obama came, and everybody thought
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that he was born in Malaysia, or Indonesia, or someplace, and that he wasn't native-born,
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but he was secretly in Muslim, and all of these other things that people were worried
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about, it became an issue.
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So much so that Ted Cruz, who was born in Toronto or someplace in Canada, was, I had to
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announce his Canadian birth in order to run for president of the United States.
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So there's a birth exception to all of this.
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So Ted was physically born in Canada, and he was still allowed to run for president, just
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like John McCain was born in a U.S. Army hospital somewhere in the world, and he was allowed
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to run for president.
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There's a, only became an issue really in America when people became afraid of Barack Obama.
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And so that's what it is, and it's really, really hard to change any of that.
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The electoral college, or to change anything, even to say simple things like, a man is equal
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to a woman, it's incredibly hard to change a U.S. Constitution, because you either have
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to have a state, a convention of the states, where each state sends representatives, and
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the trouble with this is that it can be, once you have a constitutional convention, anything
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could be changed.
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Everything is on the table.
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These guys, that you can send, that you can send to this convention, can change anything
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in the Constitution.
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And if it's ratified by majority of the states at the convention, then the Constitution
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has been changed.
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And so we haven't had one of those in 100 years, 120 years, something like that.
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It's been a really long time since one of those saying constitutional convention happened.
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The other way that we do it is, is that you have a set number of years, I think it's
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three, three, five, or seven years to change it, right?
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And so like with the Eagle Rights Amendment, we couldn't do it because we had to have a 75%
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or something majority of states that vote on it within the time period, and then it has
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to come back.
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And we couldn't get the southern states to agree that a man was equal to a woman, because
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that's not what the Bible says.
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And so they voted no, or a lot of them didn't even put it on the ballot, and so it languished.
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And so we'd have to go back to the 60s, or maybe the 50s, where we actually had a change
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to the Constitution that didn't happen in the courts, that the Supreme Court, or a
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Pellet Court, or a U.S. District Court didn't change the court presidents.
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All right, I hope this answers your question about why a non-native person can't be president
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even if he's a U.S. citizen.
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It's just that when the founding fathers wrote the Constitution, they wanted an original
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American, and the... in the... in the... in the Vex.
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All right, and you have a good day.
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Thank you.
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