Natural born citizen of the United States

、司法部、卫生及公共服务部和教育部至今无出生于外国的部长。 由于多数生于外国的阁员并非“生为美国公民（英语：Natural born citizen of the United States）”，即他们並不是生于美国，也不是由美國籍父母生於国外，由此根据1947年《总统继任法（英语：Presidential

美國總統繼任順序（英語：United States presidential line of succession）定義了當美国总统因故從缺時，應該由誰繼任其職務。 根据《美国宪法》，总统须年满35岁，在美国居住14年以上，且必須是「出生時即為美國公民」（英語：Natural-born-citizen

85 (1934). "A person of the Japanese race is a citizen of the United States if he was born within the United States. United States v. Wong Kim Ark...."

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;

attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State