Re: Citizenship of Prince Philip of Mountbatten

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Horrigan) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Horrigan) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > >  Her son can't even be president of the United States.
> > > Because he was born in Monacco, a principality, of which he will become
> > >ruler
> > >in due course.  
> > >
> > 
> > Hmm, maybe, maybe not!  I believe Albert Grimaldi was officially born with dual
> > US-Monagasque citizenship, which makes him a natural born US citizen.  
> > 
> > I also believe that he has no plans to run for President of the US.  And
> > although there have been less credible and less qualified candidates for this
> > office, he would not be a leading candidate if he did run.
> > 
> 
> Prince Albert MIGHT run into trouble (if he ran for President of the
> US) because of the following clause in the Cosntitution:
> 
> "If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or
> retain any title of nobility or honour, or shall without the consent
> of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office, or
> emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince, or
> foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United
> States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or
> profit under them, or either of them."
> 
> Although there are ways around this problem.


There never was such a clause in the Constitution of the United
States. It was in a proposed Amendment which has never been ratified.