The constitution says you cannot hold dual citizenship and run for office of President. If he renounced it he must disclose the former citizenship when announcing his candidacy, if he didn't then he is once again disqualified. Yes many Americans hold dual citizenship but they had better not try to run for the office of President while they hold them. It doesn't affect anything else and doesn't apply to other offices, but it is a prohibition, LEGALLY. Read the constitutional requirements for holding office of President of the United States of America.
No person except a natural born citizen,I struck out the part that applied only to the founding generation of 200 years ago. The key term is "natural born" -- which can indeed be hampered by having multiple allegiances at birth, which is the case with Obama even if he had been born on the steps of Independence Hall. He Dad was a Kenyan and never was a US citizen. His father's citizenship passes burdens to the son at birth.or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution,shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.
Others claim that Obama, as an adult, took an oath renouncing his US citizenship in order to gain a Indonesian passport (where he may have held a citizenship through his step-dad Soetoro). There's a number of somewhat credible reports that Obama used his Indonesian passport to travel to Pakistan, and more dubious reports that he also did the Haj -- the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca on that passport, perhaps via Pakistan.
If so, Obama would have given up his "natural born" rights, if he ever had them, but could have re-acquired his US citizenship by an oath of re-naturalization (if I have understood that re-naturalization aspect correctly).
As far as I have been able to determine, there are NO court precedents about the term "natural born" in regard to the Article II US Constitution requirements I quoted above.
I hate to say this fellow FReeper, but the Constitution is silent on the subject of dual citizenship. Probably because there was no such thing in the 18th century. I think it would be a real stretch though, for a court to decide the Constitution would allow it! Especially since it clearly states that the office be held only by a natural-born American.
As recently as the early 70s, the USA did NOT recognize dual-citizenship for adults, At age 18, those eligible for dual-citizenship with another country had to officially choose the USA or the other. It has since changed and I can only imagine it was a democrat initative.
However, dual citizenship does make one ineligible for a security clearance!!
“The constitution says you cannot hold dual citizenship and run for office of President.”
Please find and post that clause. I can’t find it.