Would citizens of the border states be eligible to be elected President of the CSA?

Anaxagoras

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The Confederate Constitution states that:

No person except a natural-born citizen of the Confederate States, or a citizen thereof, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, or a citizen thereof born in the United States prior to the 20th of December, 1860, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the limits of the Confederate States, as they may exist at the time of his election.

In a CS victory TL, there would probably be many thousands of men from Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland who would make their homes in the Confederacy if their states had ended up remaining part of the Union. Would this clause prohibit such from seeking the CSA Presidency until 14 years had passed?
 
The Confederate Constitution states that:



In a CS victory TL, there would probably be many thousands of men from Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland who would make their homes in the Confederacy if their states had ended up remaining part of the Union. Would this clause prohibit such from seeking the CSA Presidency until 14 years had passed?

That might indeed be the case, TBH; many Confederates probably would be at least a little suspicious of these new arrivals, given their Unionist background. Of course, I suppose that there could be exceptions made, perhaps waiting only half the time for eligibility for the Presidency, etc.
 
The Confederate Constitution states that:



In a CS victory TL, there would probably be many thousands of men from Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland who would make their homes in the Confederacy if their states had ended up remaining part of the Union. Would this clause prohibit such from seeking the CSA Presidency until 14 years had passed?

To many variables in such concept, personally i would imagine the Confederate Political environment would be very preceptive towards establishing a inner circle of favored Political Class involving its own citizens thus managing additional Amendments towards excluding any Americans from partaking in National Confederate Election due to what i would imagine personal bias, suspicion and bitterness towards the Union that would have a all eyes open to approach to a death by Politics creed due to a influx of American born Confederate Presidential Seekers that would seek to overturn a victory in battle, if you get my meaning.

Like the Reconstruction winning the war but losing the peace.
 
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The Confederate Constitution states that:



In a CS victory TL, there would probably be many thousands of men from Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland who would make their homes in the Confederacy if their states had ended up remaining part of the Union. Would this clause prohibit such from seeking the CSA Presidency until 14 years had passed?

There is only one really promising candidate for Confederate president who seems to me to be excluded--John Breckinridge.
 
To make things even more complex, Maryland, Missouri, Kentucky, the Indian Territory, New Mexico Territory, Arizona Territory, and West(-ern) Virginia were claimed by the CSA, at least at first. :D
 
To make things even more complex, Maryland, Missouri, Kentucky, the Indian Territory, New Mexico Territory, Arizona Territory, and West(-ern) Virginia were claimed by the CSA, at least at first. :D


But the relevant constitutional provision says "the limits of the Confederate States, *as they may exist at the time of his election*" [emphasis added], and the presumption in the original post is that the CSA has to give these claimed areas up in the peace treaty. (Incidentally, the Confederacy never claimed Maryland as a member state. The Confederate flag never had more than thirteen stars. Maryland was never represented in the Confederate Congress. "Russell of Virginia even proposed to allow her a non-voting congressman, but Confederate sympathizers there had not even erected a provisional government and the resolution was tabled." http://books.google.com/books?id=rV-XNj4eJ3wC&pg=PA163 The Confederacy had hopes, at first even expectations, that Maryland would join, but never claimed that it actually had done so. )
 
To make things even more complex, Maryland, Missouri, Kentucky, the Indian Territory, New Mexico Territory, Arizona Territory, and West(-ern) Virginia were claimed by the CSA, at least at first. :D
I don't believe Maryland ever was officially claimed by the CSA? I know it never had a Confederate government-in-exile like Missouri or Kentucky.

But yes, those claims would probably be renounced in the peace treaty (along with probably some other territory as well, depending on when and how the treaty comes about).
 
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