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Ineligibility

Disqualification or legal incapacity to he elected to an office. Thus, an alien or naturalized citizen is ineligible to be elected president of the United States. Carroll v. Green, 148 Ind. 362, 47 N. E. 223; State v. Murray, 28 WI8. 90, 9 Am. Rep. 489

Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)