John M. Yinger

Full American Citizenship for Naturalized Citizens
 

A Campaign Initiated by John Yinger


 

Foreign-born adoptees who are naturalized as American citizens when they are babies or young children have all the rights of American citizenship -- except for one right of great symbolic importance: They are not eligible to be President of the United States. This page of my web site is dedicated to correcting this unfair situation, that is, to obtaining full American citizenship for foreign-born adoptees and other naturalized citizens. If you want to help with this campaign or have comments on it, please send me an e-mail at jyinger@maxwell.syr.edu.
 

THE PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT:

Replace the first part of the Presidential eligibility clause in the Constitution with the following:

No person except one who has been a citizen of the United States for at least thirty-five years shall be eligible to the office of President;

•  Op-Ed, "Must presidents be born in the U.S.? "
   By: John Yinger, June 3, 2007, The Post-Standard, Syracuse, NY.
   

•  Announcement, October 7, 2004
   New Initiatives to Eliminate the Natural-Born Citizen Requirement in
   the U.S.Constitution
   

•  Written statement presented to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee
   Hearing  “Maximizing Voter Choice: Opening the Presidency to
   Naturalized Americans”
  By: John Yinger "A Simple Matter of Equal Rights: Let Naturalized Citizens Run for President" October 5, 2004
  
   

•  Testimony presented to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing “Maximizing Voter Choice: Opening the Presidency to Naturalized Americans”
  By: John Yinger "A Simple Matter of Equal Rights: Let Naturalized Citizens Run for President" October 5, 2004
  
   

•  Op-Ed Piece About Barney Frank's Proposed Constitutional Amendment
  
   

•  Myths Invoked to Defend Second-Class Citizenship for Naturalized Citizens
  
   

•  My Testimony on the Barney Frank Amendment
   

    Commentary
 

• Is the Right of Foreign-born Adoptees To Be President an Appropriate Subject for a Constitutional Amendment?
  
   

• Origins and Interpretation of the Presidential Eligibility Clause in the U.S. Constitution
  
   

    Related Sites

      A site with the same objective as this one!

•  D. Mueller's Site.
  
  
  
  Two sites with extensive information about adoption.
   

•  adopting.com
   

•  rainbowkids.com
   

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