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Holding dual citizenship does not disqualify an American from running for president so long as he/she was born on “American soil” and is therefore “Native born”.

Dual citizenship disqualifies a person from eligibility to serve as Commander-in-Chief and President of the United States. The singular purpose of the natural born citizen clause was to deny that office to any person born with an allegiance to a foreign sovereign. Any person born with dual citizenship is thereby born with allegiance to a foreign sovereign in direct violation of the purpose of the Constitution’s clause and intended purpose.

Yo WhiskeyX—Thanks for the info. That makes sense to me. As I’ve said, I’m no expert on the “native born” presidential candidate requirement. In any case, I guess it can be intuited from your comment that a dual-citizenship person (one of them being native born American) who renounces the non-US citizenship is qualified to run for president.

Right.

"Obama’s father was never a US citizen, nor was he ever permanently domiciled in the US. At birth, Obama was a British citizen. Obama admits his birth status was governed by Great Britain.
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For it is this specific fear that prompted our first Supreme Court Chief Justice – John Jay – to suggest to George Washington the following:

Permit me to hint, whether it would be wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expressly that the Commander in Chief of the American army shall not be given to nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen.
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This letter was written on July 25, 1787. It is in direct response to Alexander Hamilton’s suggested Presidential requirement appearing in the first draft of the Constitution wherein Hamilton – five weeks earlier – on June 18, 1787 submitted the following:

No person shall be eligible to the office of President of the United States unless he be now a Citizen of one of the States, or hereafter be born a Citizen of the United States.

There you have the crux of the issue now before the nation. Hamilton’s original drafted presidential requirement was rejected by the framers. Instead of allowing any person born a citizen to be President, the framers chose to adopt the more stringent requirement from John Jay, that the President be a natural born citizen. ..."

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The Dangerous Precedent Set by Obama being President