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To: RockinRight

You can be born out of the US, if your parents are citizens. I assume his parents were US Citizens, that would make him one, regardless of where he was born.


2 posted on 02/03/2005 10:55:15 AM PST by TheOtherOne
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To: TheOtherOne

Natural-born citizen

Who is a natural-born citizen? Who, in other words, is a citizen at birth, such that that person can be a President someday?

The 14th Amendment defines citizenship this way: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." But even this does not get specific enough. As usual, the Constitution provides the framework for the law, but it is the law that fills in the gaps.

Currently, Title 8 of the U.S. Code fills in those gaps. Section 1401 defines the following as people who are "citizens of the United States at birth:"

Anyone born inside the United States
Any Indian or Eskimo born in the United States, provided being a citizen of the U.S. does not impair the person's status as a citizen of the tribe
Any one born outside the United States, both of whose parents are citizens of the U.S., as long as one parent has lived in the U.S.
Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year and the other parent is a U.S. national
Any one born in a U.S. possession, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year
Any one found in the U.S. under the age of five, whose parentage cannot be determined, as long as proof of non-citizenship is not provided by age 21
Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is an alien and as long as the other parent is a citizen of the U.S. who lived in the U.S. for at least five years (with military and diplomatic service included in this time)
A final, historical condition: a person born before 5/24/1934 of an alien father and a U.S. citizen mother who has lived in the U.S.
Anyone falling into these categories is considered natural-born, and is eligible to run for President or Vice President. These provisions allow the children of military families to be considered natural-born, for example.


18 posted on 02/03/2005 11:01:36 AM PST by Lokibob (All typos and spelling errors are mine and copyrighted!!!!)
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To: TheOtherOne
You can be born out of the US, if your parents are citizens. I assume his parents were US Citizens, that would make him one, regardless of where he was born.

Yes, you are a US citizen if you are born to citizens, regardless of the country you are born in. However, if you are born in a foreign country you are NOT eligible to run for President.

US Military installations might be a different matter. But it is a fact that if your parents are on vacation in the Bahamas and you are born there, you can not run for President.

25 posted on 02/03/2005 11:05:01 AM PST by Phantom Lord (Advantages are taken, not handed out)
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To: TheOtherOne

Born abroad of US parents makes you a citizen, but not eligible to be president. Applies to me, born in England of US parents while Dad was in the Air Force.

I don't know how the rules apply if he was born in the hospital on a US Military Installation.


76 posted on 02/03/2005 7:18:19 PM PST by HiJinx (www .ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Easter/Passover ~ Coming soon to a tagline near you...)
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