Should the U.S. Constitution be changed to allow foreign-born citizens to be President?

When this country was founded and the framers wrote the constitutional requirement that the president to be a "natural born citizen", scholars concede that the 1787 Constitutional Convention's deliberations shed little light on the reason for the natural born requirement. So they instead cited a letter sent to George Washington during the Convention by John Jay, who would later become the nation's first chief justice.

Jay was wary of entrusting foreigners with positions of power. Presumably concerned that foreigners might harbor allegiances to their native countries, he advocated for "a strong check" on admitting them into government and, in the first known use of the term, warned that the commander in chief position should be given only to a "natural born citizen."

Many of the founders and framers expressed fear of foreign influence on the person who would in the future serve as President of the United States since this particular office was singularly and uniquely powerful under the proposed new Constitution. This question of foreign influence was elevated when John Jay considered the additional power granted to the Presidency during times of war, that is when he serves as Commander in Chief of the military. Jay felt strongly that whoever served as President and Commander In Chief during times of war must owe their sole allegiance to and only to the United States.

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