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.
If neither of them were US citizens then that's all you had to say.
You have to be a natural born citizen to serve either of those roles.
I thought, like Obama, one of her parents was American.
I thought this was another 'Kenya' thing, which is irrelevant because his mother was American.
The reason Obama's not a citizen is because Kenya referenced citizenship of children to citizenship of the father in Kenyan law when Obama was born.
He was born under Kenyan jurisdiction.
When she married the Kenyan and lived in Kenya with him, her child was immediately upon birth, subject to the father's jurisdiction, and when she legally contracted marriage in Kenya she affirmed that by agreeing to be married there, to a Kenyan man.
Which is why Obama doesn't have a birth certificate from the United States.
Doesn't fucking matter.
The US recognizes any child born of an american as american, regardless of what some other country has to say about it. US law doesn't cede to some other nation's thoughts on the matter.