By: Akhil Reed Amar

"But those American citizens who happen to have been born abroad to non-American parents — and who later choose to become “naturalized” American citizens — are not the full legal equals of those of us born in the U.S. True, naturalized Americans have always been allowed to serve as cabinet secretaries, Supreme Court justices, senators and governors. And at the founding, anyone already a citizen could be president, regardless of birthplace. (Alexander Hamilton, for example, though born in the West Indies, was fully eligible to serve as president under the Constitution he himself helped draft.) But modern-day naturalized citizens are barred from the presidency simply because they were born in the wrong place to the wrong parents."

What Akhil Reed Amar was trying to say was that US citizens that were not born in the United States were not the same or equal as US citizens born here. They have more value when it comes to certain situation because of the fact that they were actually born inside the country. It speaks about the fact that US citizens born outside the US can not become President of the United States. He blames being born in the wrong place to the wrong parents the reason why you can't become president, because those parents did not have the opportunity to live in the United States before giving birth. 

I chose this passage because I am a US citizen that was not born inside of the United States. I was born in the Dominican Republic and came to this country at the age of four. I became a US citizen a couple of years ago and I had to defend my citizenship against a "friend" that was born here. He didn't consider me a full citizen because I paid for my citizenship. The way I see it he wasn't a "real" citizen to begin with because he didn't know this country history. Yes I paid to become a citizen but I had to study this country history and I've been living in this country for 24 years. This country is ALL I know and I am proud to say I am an American Citizen. I do not agree with the law that you can't become a president if you was not born here because that shouldn't been the main focus. There is more to being a citizen than just the country you was born in.