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To: CodeToad

You are correct. If his mother were old enough to pass citizenship, he would be a US citizen. That is not the same as a Natural Born Citizen. A Natural Born Citizen must have 2 citizen parents.


166 posted on 02/15/2011 3:59:59 PM PST by Josephat
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To: Josephat

You are correct. If his mother were old enough to pass citizenship, he would be a US citizen. That is not the same as a Natural Born Citizen. A Natural Born Citizen must have 2 citizen parents.


No court has ruled that to be the case regarding Barack Obama and no committee of Congress has convened a hearing to examine whether Obama is a natural born citizen or not.
The reason for no court action might be because the Indiana Court of Appeals already ruled that “Based on the language of Article II, Section 1, Clause 4 and the guidance provided by Wong Kim Ark, we conclude that persons born within the boundaries of the United States are “natural born citizens” for Article II, Section 1 purposes, regardless of the citizenship of their parents.”—Ankeny et. al. v The Governor of Indiana. Mitch Daniels
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/in-court-of-appeals/1501011.html


167 posted on 02/15/2011 4:09:55 PM PST by jamese777
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To: Josephat
"A Natural Born Citizen must have 2 citizen parents."

Nope. Just his mother is enough.

My beef is that I believe he was born in Kenya and even if his mother had returned to the US she still failed other rules.

For persons born between December 24, 1952 and November 14, 1986, a person is a U.S. citizen if all of the following are true (except if born out-of-wedlock)[7]:

1.The person's parents were married at the time of birth
2.One of the person's parents was a U.S. citizen when the person was born
3.The citizen parent lived at least ten years in the United States before the child's birth;
4.A minimum of 5 of these 10 years in the United States were after the citizen parent's 14th birthday.


For persons born out-of-wedlock (mother) if all the following apply:
1.the mother was a U.S. citizen at the time of the person’s birth and
2.the mother was physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of one year prior to the person’s birth.[8] (See link for those born to a U.S. father out-of-wedlock)[7]

171 posted on 02/15/2011 4:26:23 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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