Since the requirements for the Office of the President are set forth in law, it would be some agency of the Executive Branch of Government which enforces it. In actuality it is the political parties that first vette their candidates to ensure that there will be no 'mistakes' that would disqualify their candidate.
Candidates for president must be born in the US, be at least 35 years of age and have lived in the US for at least 14 years.
None. ( In fact, until Barack Obama, all candidates for presidency have been of European descent. )
no
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In the 1932 US presidential election, Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt ran against the incumbent president, Herbert Hoover, a Republican. Most voters blamed the Depression on Hoover so Roosevelt became the 32nd US president.
Yes. ALL candidates for political office in the US must be citizens, either native born or naturalized.
In 1844 James Polk (Jacksonsonian Democrat) defeated Henry Clay (Whig) for the US presidency. A third party candidate, James Birney, also ran and received about 2% of the popular vote and no electoral votes.
Establish respect for the office of the presidency
The Executive Branch.
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The US presidential election pitted one Republican, Abraham Lincoln against three other candidates. Despite the party names of these candidates, all of them were Democrats. This divided the Democratic Party and helped Republican Lincoln gain the presidency. The nation remained divided however, over the talk about secession, the future of slavery and the future of the Democratic Party.