The President of the United States is required to be a natural-born U.S. citizen through a specific provision in the U.S. Constitution. A naturalized citizen cannot serve as commander-in-chief by law.

However, other elected offices are open to both naturalized and native-born citizens. In Alabama, three officials want to change that.

Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen, State Sen. Donnie Chesteen (R-Dothan), and State Rep. Rhett Marques (R-Enterprise) have brought a bill that would require almost all officials in Alabama to be natural born.

Only local officials, such as Mayors, city council members and county commissioners, were not included in a ban through newly-introduced SB21.

“For the same reasons our founding fathers sought to ensure that our nation’s leader was a natural born A

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