Problem:
Article II, Section 1, of the U.S. Constitution requires that the President, as the head of the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government, must be a natural born citizen to be eligible to serve as President. No foreign born person is eligible to serve as the head of the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government. Relying on the authority of the U.S. Constitution, the State General Assembly passed legislation, signed into law, requiring that all public school superintendents, as the chief executive officers of public schools, must also be natural born citizens to be eligible to serve as superintendents. Dr. Wen was born in China, but he became a U.S. citizen 5 years prior to being hired as a new public school superintendent. Because of the new law, however, Dr. Wen was dismissed as legally ineligible to serve as a public school superintendent. Dr. Wen (P) sues the State (D) claiming a violation of the Equal Protection Clause.