Are questions about President-Elect Obamas citizenship relevant or should they be ignored?”
Article II, Section 1 of the US Constiution sets forth the requirements for holding the office of President of the United States of America: No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States. http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.articleii.html Here is the basic controversy: Obama citizenship question goes to U.S. Supreme Court BY CHRIS RIZO Barack Obama (D) WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-The former deputy Pennsylvania attorney