Zoom-boing
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Yes I saw your post. Well the Resolution stating McCain is qualified to run for President defines Natural Born Citizen as having two parents that are Citizens (Plural) of the United States. That ought to shoot Obamas status as a Natural Born Citizen down right there. Natural Born is a special quality the founders wanted a person to be in order to be President with no allegiances to other countries. That still holds true today. No Dual Citizen can be a President.The child would be a 14th Ammendment Sec 1. Citizen but not a Natural Born Citizen to be Pres or V.P.. He would fall under the Won Kim Ark situation in the chart here in the middle category under Citizen. To be President both Parents must be born in the U.S. and must be U.S. Citizens. If 2 illegal mexicans came across the border and had a child in El Paso, Tx, that child would never be able to run for President. The child would only have Citizen status but not Natural Born Status. Obama can't be Natural Born because although he was born in Hawaii, his father was not a US Citizen in any form.
HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN?
“When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children.
Did you see my post #246, above? The link - U.S. Constitution on-line - doesn't say anything about the parents having to be U.S. citizens and the child being born in U.S. mainland (the 'and' being emphasized), as in your chart. Why wouldn't that be in a U.S. Constitution reference?
McCain is a natural-born citizen under 8 USC 1401(c): "a person born outside of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents both of whom are citizens of the United States
If a person born in Panama wanting to run for President has to have 2 US Parents to be a Natural Born Citizen then it should be common knowledge that the same status applies to someone born in the mainland of the US.
The bolded, above, specifically says "a person born outside of the U.S." If you apply the bolded above to McCain, would you not apply the bolded, below, to Obama? -- "the same status applies to someone born in the mainland of the US."
In #4, below: "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." If someone born outside of the U.S. can be considered a natural-born citizen when one parent is a U.S. citizen and one parent is a U.S. national, it seems to me that someone born inside the U.S. with one parent a U.S. citizen and one parent a U.S. national would be considered a natural-born citizen. Wasn't Obama's father a U.S. national (I thought I read that somewhere)?
In #5, below: "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." If someone born in a U.S. possession and one parent is a U.S. citizen and lived in the U.S. for a least a year (Obama's mother), it would seem to me that someone born in the U.S. mainland and one parent was a U.S. citizen and lived in the U.S. for a least a year (Obama's mother) would be considered natural-born.
I still don't see anywhere in the U.S. Constitution (below) where is specifies that a person must have two parents that are U.S. citizens AND be born on the U.S. mainland to be considered natural-born.
Where did you get your chart from? Thanks.
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.
* There is an exception in the law — the person must be "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States. This would exempt the child of a diplomat, for example, from this provision.
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.
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