Presidential requirements?

[Nate]

So that settles it. Women and African Americans have always been legally allowed to vote.
PS look at how cool my sig banner is

um... cool

[pex]

I personally take great offense to this, so I was going to say male chauvinist pigs, bigots and any other name that came to mind. I was going to quote from the records of Tammany Hall where YES they allowed Black men to vote in the mid 1800's, but thought better of it.

So here ya go...
19th Amendment
Passed by Congress June 4, 1919.
Ratified August 18, 1920.
Section 1: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Section 2: Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

U.S. Constitution: Article II Section 1: 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. This says nothing about gender or race.

So was federal income taxation, as it is, always a right of the federal government or did such a right only begin on February 3, 1913?

[knight0334]

The Constitution says you have to be:

1. at least 35 years old
2. had been born a US citizen
3. had lived here for 14 years.

Any that fulfills those 3 requirements meets the criteria to be President. Nothing more is required - period.

...it doesn't say you have to be a white male.