The child always follows the allegiance of the father. http://www.usnaturalborncitizen.com/meaningofnaturalborn.html
Harris was born Oct. 20, 1964, and her father was a citizen of Jamaica at the time of her birth.
Specifically, Chapter 2 (entitled Citizenship) of the Jamaica Constitution, Section 3C states:
Every person born outside Jamaica shall become a citizen of Jamaica –
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on the sixth day of August 1962, in the case of a person born before that date; or
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on the date of his/her birth, in the case of a person born on or after the sixth day of August 1962,
if, at that date, his/her father or mother is a citizen of Jamaica by birth, descent, or
registration by virtue of marriage to a citizen of Jamaica.
Yeah. I was always told in school you have to be a natural born citizen which means your parents have to BOTH be citizens and you have to be born in the US or a US territory.
Whoever told you that was mistaken. Natural born citizen means you must be a citizen of the United States at and by birth. Your parents and their nationality are irrelevant.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/natural_born_citizen
I know exactly what I am talking about. While natural born was never formally defined in the constitution, every single legal president up to and including the Supreme Court has affirmed that it means born in the US, and has nothing to do with the citizenship of parents.
Your baseless interpretation would also mean that at least nine former US presidents were ineligible.
Fucking fight me fag.
This is often the general view. I (and others) consider this to be total bullshit.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1646&context=jcl
Why would we need "natural" in the wording? The Founders intended to mean someone who no statute made a US citizen, but who was naturally a citizen by birth.
Harris' parents were guests in this country when she was born. Not citizens. She might be American. But she is not Natural Born.
yes IIRC the supreme court has not really made it clear at all. There is a difference or should be a difference between native born and natural born. native is you were born here. but natural born means you have citizen parents even is you were born overseas. same thing with the anchor babies, that is total bullshit and arbitrary. just because some foreign even illegally here person give birth to you but on US soil that makes you an American? total bullshit. most other countries citizenship laws don't work like the US for good reason. On this point US citizenship laws are dumb and guarantee future problems (invasion by millions of enemy infiltrators loyal to foreign powers).
the whole point of the 'natural born' assuming by both parents as US citizens, is that the president would have no divided loyalties to foreign powers or at least distant as possible such as grandparents from some other country.
Our views are the same on this.
Salute.
That may be your view, but it is not backed by any kind of precedent or caselaw. Your interpretation would also mean that at least nine of our past US presidents were ‘ineligible’ for having foreign-born, foreign citizen parents.
So these nine Presidents had not a single parent who was American when they were born? Please name them.
Also, most caselaw made in the last one hundred years I consider to be complete horseshit written by Commies.
Your parents don't have to be citizens. You have to be a natural born citizen.
Thats what makes you a natural born citizen, both your parents being US citizens and being born in the US or US territory.
No. The clause about ‘subject to jurisdiction’ is dealing specifically with the children of diplomats or agents of a foreign government, who have official diplomatic or foreigner status.
No, A natural-born citizen refers to someone who was a U.S. citizen at birth, and did not need to go through a naturalization proceeding later in life. Anchor baby = natural born citizen.