He knew he had Canadian citizenship, but when it became a political nightmare (as well as an anchor that would take him down if he ran for president of the USA), he decided that it would be in his best interests politically if he dropped them.
However, Ted Cruz has shown that if you have an American mother it doesn't really matter that much, because you are an American citizen and can run for the highest office in the land.
BTW.....wasn't Obama's mother an American citizen as well? Doesn't matter, Kenya or Hawaii, Obama's mother was a citizen, therefore making him a citizen as well. (Especially if you ask Cruz).
Citizen is not good enough to be president. You have to be a Article 2 Section 1 natural born Citizen to be president.
Article 2 Section 1 Clause 5 of the United States Constitution:
No person except a natural born Citizen, 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.
The only time a
Citizen was allowed to be president was at the time of the adoption of the Constitution and until the grandfather clause ended when a first generation 'natural born Citizen' was eligible to be president. That president was Martin Van Buren.
The Founding Fathers did not define who is a natural born citizen.
Read the Federalist Papers and you will get a clear understanding of what their intent was, born of citizen parents. The father of the 14th Amendment, Rep John Bingham, when debating to congress on the house floor defined a natural born Citizen as a person born within the sole jurisdiction of the United States of parents owing no allegiance to any foreign sovereigty. His definition was met without any opposition.
Sadly for you, I have read the Federalist Papers and the Congressional Record of Bingham's statements. You have not. You have repeatedly parroted some out of context bullshit you read on the internet. We've had this talk before, jackass.
Bingham did not address those children who are born outside the US to US citizens. All he defined were those children who were born IN the United States. He was silent on those born
outside the US to citizens.
This does:
Naturalization Act of 1790
And the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond Sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born Citizens
I repeat, Bingham did not address those children born outside the US to US citizens. And he came along 79 years after the Founders used the term in the Constitution, and 76 years after they defined children born to US citizens outside the US as natural born citizens in the Naturalization Act.
You can't possibly pretend our Founders meant something different in the Constitution than what they themselves specifically spelled out in the Naturalization Act only three years after penning the Constitution.
