McGarrett Talks Ignorant Smack Again
He was never a dual citizen, ever. He never had a british passport or a british birth certificate. You are living in an utter fantasy land.
Maybe one day your brain will grow back three times, to make up for what you lost. You poor racist sob, you. Tsk, tsk.
You know you are like kryptonite when even hard-core Righties are avoiding you or laughing at you.
I personally pity you.
The United States does not recognize dual citizenship
in any event.
Another lie. The U.S. does recognize dual citizenship. Stop obfuscating!
Is Dual Citizenship Allowed in the United States?
Is Dual Citizenship Allowed in the United States? | Legal Language Services
Dual Citizenship in the United States
Dual citizenship had previously been banned in the United States, but the US Supreme Court struck down most laws forbidding dual citizenship in 1967.
I've been nice to you. you're way out of line.
Don't call me a liar again.
I said that the United States does not
recognize dual citizenship; I didn't say anything about the United States formally
forbidding it . . . as long as one does not renounce one's citizenship in the process of acquiring another aboard . . . as some countries require. Snap out of it. The United States has no control over what other nations might do in terms of citizenship and nationality, and minors cannot lose or renounce their U.S. citizenship.
And these are just the kind of legal subtleties that are lost on those with just enough knowledge to make them dangerous, and this is especially true of birthers who argue that there are more than two kinds of citizenship under constitutional law, persons who don't grasp the fact that it is
they who would undermined the purpose of the Natural Born Citizen Clause if they had their way.
The Supreme Court's rulings are of no consequence whatsoever with regard to what matters . . . or did you not pick that up in that very same article you cited? We're you asleep?
However, the US government remained disdainful of dual citizenship for some time. To this day, candidates for US citizenship through naturalization are forced to renounce their previous citizenship at the United States naturalization ceremony.
The renouncing of one's previous citizenship is part of the oath that new US citizens must take, and failing to honor that oath could result in the loss of citizenship in the United States.
. . . People who have held dual citizenship since birth or childhood — or who became citizens of another country after becoming a US citizen and were not asked to renounce their previous citizenship — can remain dual citizens in the United States.
Congress has the prerogative to demand that one renounce previous allegiances before one becomes a naturalized citizen of the United States, and currently it does demand that. But it doesn't have to.
The Supreme Court has never so much as laid a glove on that prerogative, though it has come close due to the attempts of a handful of leftist lunatics on the Bench. Should it ever do such a thing, Congress would tell the Court to go to hell. You don't have an inkling as to how serious a breach of the separation of powers such a judicial action would be, do you? The ramifications relative to the peoples' national sovereignty . . . staggering! The Court already did more than enough damage in that respect in
Wong Kim Ark (By the way, you don't understand what happened there either.) and tried to do even more damage during the leftist Warren years, but sanity prevailed.
The only thing that Congress no longer demands of U.S. citizens who acquire citizenship from other countries abroad, as a result of case law, is that they upon return renounce it. That's all your talking about. That's all this article adds up to: legal subtleties that elude you.
Naturalized citizens are required to renounce any former allegiances to this very day before they become U.S. citizens, and
neither Congress nor the State department officially recognizes any citizenship conferred by foreign countries on U.S. citizens abroad . . . unless, once again, one renounces one's U.S. citizenship in the process of acquiring another. Make no mistake about it: renounce your citizenship abroad and Customs, at the direction of the State Department in accordance with the statutory commands of Congress, will require you to get a visa.
Otherwise, such conferrals have absolutely no legally binding impact on U.S. citizenship. None! Zip! As far as Congress is concerned, an American citizen, natural-born or naturalized, is not a citizen of any other country in the world.
Cruz, for example, is not a citizen of Canada as far as Congress is concerned. He is a citizen of the United States. Period. End of story. And if and when he runs for the presidency, make no mistake about, birther, he will do so as a natural-born citizen backed by the Constitution, by Congress and by the State Department . . . in that order, just like George Romney (born in Mexico), Lowell Weicker (born in France) and John McCain (born in Panama) ran for the presidency and were backed by the same. All, except McCain, technically, were duly born abroad of U.S. citizens, citizens at the moment of birth by statute, that is to say, constitutionally natural-born citizens.
(By the way, the Panama Canal Zone was never a territorial possession of the United States for constitutional purposes! I know that many of you labor under that misunderstanding of things. It was never anything more than an unincorporated territory perpetually leased by the United States from Panama at the discretion of the United States. It was and has always been Panamanian soil, residing outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United for constitutional purposes. The only jurisdiction that the United States ever exerted over the Zone was administrative. Anyone born there of U.S. citizens had to be covered under the congressional decree of
jus sanguinus in order to be a citizen at birth (a natural-born citizen), just like anyone else born abroad of U.S. citizens anywhere else in the world.
Technically, McCain, at the time of his birth, was not covered.
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There, now you have more to scream about it.
