THeBlueCashew

Quote from: "RW"Yeah I found that strange too Joe.  I think he was born in Canada while his parents were working.

Quote"If he wasn't born in this country, then he has pulled one of the great cons in politics."

Quote from: "cc la femme"And Romney was born in Mexico

Quote from: "cc la femme"Yes. The McCain thing was extra easy as Military base is considered US soil under as it relates to US law.



Jeez, seems so many foreign born run for pres ... Canada, Mexico, Panama , Kenya



 ac_smile

Quote from: "cc la femme"Not sure how our law works on that, but I "would expect" she would have citizenship via parents citizenship, assuming at least one was Canadian ... and dual (until a specific age) if one was not Canadian



Not 100 on that

Quote from: "cc la femme"Now I think on it, my daughter had Canadian (dual) citizenship even though born in US to a US father and Canadian mother



She had to decide at a certain age which one to keep





Anyhow Joey. The US will sort this all out



... oh well

Quote from: "cc la femme"One of the 2 countries set an age limit. It may have been Canada as she lived in Canada as an adult a while, them moved back to the US . I forget but I'll ask her which it was and what circumstances were at the time that triggered it



Now I think more about it, as many living in Canada found out tax-wise, the US considers a US citizen to be just that no matter how long they have lived abroad and must report their income annually forever  ... except only when one has gone through a formal and difficult process to formally rescind  US citizenship



So based on that, it must have been Canada that made her choose one or the other - As I recall it may have been the trigger for her decision to move back to the US and give up Canadian citizenship. I recall her being strong that she would never give up US citizenship even though most of her life was spent in Canada

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QuoteNo 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.

    Article II, Section 1, Clause 5

The Constitution imposes three eligibility requirements on the Presidency—based on the officeholder's age, residency, and citizenship—that must be satisfied at the time of taking office. By virtue of the Twelfth Amendment, the qualifications for Vice President are the same. The Framers established these qualifications in order to increase the chances of electing a person of patriotism, judgment, and civic virtue.



The third qualification to be President is that one must be a "natural born Citizen" (or a citizen at the time of the adoption of the Constitution). Although any citizen may become a Member of Congress so long as he has held citizenship for the requisite time period, to be President, one must be "a natural born Citizen." Undivided loyalty to the United States was a prime concern. During the Constitutional Convention, John Jay wrote to George Washington, urging "a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expressly that the Commander in Chief of the American army shall not be given to nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen." Justice Story later noted that the natural-born–citizenship requirement "cuts off all chances for ambitious foreigners, who might otherwise be intriguing for the office."



Under the longstanding English common-law principle of jus soli, persons born within the territory of the sovereign (other than children of enemy aliens or foreign diplomats) are citizens from birth. Thus, those persons born within the United States are "natural born citizens" and eligible to be President. Much less certain, however, is whether children born abroad of United States citizens are "natural born citizens" eligible to serve as President. As early as 1350, the British Parliament approved statutes recognizing the rule of jus sanguinis, under which citizens may pass their citizenship by descent to their children at birth, regardless of place. Similarly, in its first naturalization statute, Congress declared that "the children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond the sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens." 1 Stat. 104 (1790). The "natural born" terminology was dropped shortly thereafter. See, e.g., 8 U.S.C. § 1401(c). But the question remains whether the term "natural born Citizen" used in Article II includes the parliamentary rule of jus sanguinis in addition to the common law principle of jus soli. In United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), the Supreme Court relied on English common law regarding jus soli to inform the meaning of "citizen" in the Fourteenth Amendment as well as the natural-born–citizenship requirement of Article II, and noted that any right to citizenship though jus sanguinis was available only by statute, and not through the Constitution. Notwithstanding the Supreme Court's discussion in Wong Kim Ark, a majority of commentators today argue that the Presidential Eligibility Clause incorporates both the common-law and English statutory principles, and that therefore, Michigan Governor George Romney, who was born to American parents outside of the United States, was eligible to seek the Presidency in 1968.