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[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Right. As opposed to the Irish who had never, ever been British subjects. And yet the Irish constitution has no ‘natural born’ requirements to serve in any government post, including President or Taoiseach.

Boru

From the Act of Union on 1 January 1801, until 6 December 1922, the island of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

But it doesn't seem relevant.  The Constitution states that only natural born citizens may be POTUS, so that's the rule.  No one alive had a hand in writing the rule.  It seems at odds with just about every other office, which have no such requirements.  And as a nation of immigrants, it seem particularly disturbing.  But barring a new amendment, it is the law.

I was being sarcastic. TGN made the point that if the US didn’t restrict the presidency to natural borns, the FF we’re concerned that they might end up with a head of state who was more sympathetic to Britain than to the US, since all Americans at that time were recently British subjects.

I was pointing out that Ireland was in precisely the same situation in 1922, but didn’t feel the need to restrict political offices to natural born citizens.

And Ireland had been subject to British rule long before 1801.

Boru