Trump released his birth certificate in 2011 IIRC. His parents were both American citizens at his birth. Now Chester Arthur was a dual citizen at birth (Irish-American) but we can't fix that easily now.
Yes, Mary MacLeod Trump was naturalized 1942-03-10 and thus unqualified for the presidency; Donald was born 1946-06-14, so he had natural born citizenship at birth because no dual citizenship.
Under natural law in late eighteenth-century Europe and America: the father’s blood determined the political allegiance of free persons at birth; the mother was legally irrelevant.
Wouldn’t Trump have also been a dual citizen under that rationale?
Trump released his birth certificate in 2011 IIRC. His parents were both American citizens at his birth. Now Chester Arthur was a dual citizen at birth (Irish-American) but we can't fix that easily now.
Yes, but his mother wasn’t a natural born citizen but was a foreigner.
Yes, Mary MacLeod Trump was naturalized 1942-03-10 and thus unqualified for the presidency; Donald was born 1946-06-14, so he had natural born citizenship at birth because no dual citizenship.
Under natural law in late eighteenth-century Europe and America: the father’s blood determined the political allegiance of free persons at birth; the mother was legally irrelevant.