Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require that certain individuals are natural born citizens.

Key Points

• This proposal would change the rules for who can serve as a federal judge. Right now, the Constitution does not require judges to be natural born citizens. This amendment would change the law so that only people born as U.S. citizens could serve on the Supreme Court or lower federal courts.
• If passed, any person who moved to the United States and became a citizen later in life would be barred from serving as a federal judge. This would create a new restriction that currently only applies to the office of the president.
• The new rule would start six months after the amendment is officially added to the Constitution. To get there, two-thirds of both the House and Senate must approve it. Then, three-fourths of the states must vote to accept it within seven years.

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