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To: Nero Germanicus

The states shouldn’t need to pass law to require singular citizenship candidates. The constitution requires it.

When Obama was running in 2008, I told my daughter, a liberal Democrat, Truth be told, communist, that Obama will be disqualified. That he can’t be president because he has had multiple citizenships from birth.

Being the Obot that she is, she said that’s a good thing. She said that’s even more reason to vote for him. I think that attitude was common. It shocked me, so I never forgot.

So I understand the mentality.Breaking this clause has been a feather in the communist cap for anti Americans libs.


167 posted on 03/11/2014 5:08:01 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: PA-RIVER

The reason that the Courts and Congress haven’t intervened in Obama’s dual citizenship is because there is historical precedent for dual citizen presidents. Barack Obama is the third president to be born with automatic inherited dual citizenship.
The first was James Buchanan. Buchanan missed being eligible for the constitution’s Article II, Section 1 grandfather clause by four years. He was born in 1791 and the Constitution was ratified in 1787.
Buchanan’s father (also named James Buchanan) was a citizen of Ireland who had immigrated to the United States and became naturalized as an American citizen. Ireland at that time was part of the British Empire. By virtue of British law known as “nemo potest exuere patriam,” [”No one can cast off his country”] Buchanan was a British subject for life and he his son inherited British citizenship as well.

The second dual citizen to become president was Chester Alan Arthur. Arthur was the son of an Irish immigrant (William Arthur). President Arthur’s father also became a naturalized U.S. Citizen when Chester was 14 years old. Chester A. Arthur was also a British subject under British law. But unlike President Buchanan, Chester A. Arthur’s British nationality was rescinded with the passage of the British Naturalization Act of 1870 (When Chester A. Arthur was 41 years old).

Barack Obama lost his Kenyan citizenship at age 23 when he did not affirmatively act to retain it. Kenya, at that time, did not acknowledge dual-citizenship. Kenya required a person to make a choice.

Both Presidents George Washington and James Madison were granted honorary French citizenship by the French Assembly, just like the Marquis de Lafayette was granted honorary U.S. Citizenship.
Tom Paine, while never a president, was certainly a Founder and he accepted French citizenship and was elected to the French National Convention.


179 posted on 03/11/2014 10:50:42 AM PDT by Nero Germanicus (PALIN/CRUZ: 2016)
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