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To: ought-six
Under U.S. law, a person is a natural born citizen if he or she is born of a parent who was a U.S. citizen at the time of that birth, no matter where the physical birth occurred.

There is no legal statute conferring natural born citizenship. There was a short-lived Act from 1790 to 1795 that attempted to confer that status upon children born abroad to citizen parents provided that the father met certain requirements. Beyond that, nothing. It's a requirement for the Presidency under the Constitution. Under statutory law, no such distinction is made.

53 posted on 01/09/2016 10:38:27 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

So, by your reasoning anyone can serve as POTUS, because, according to you “natural born citizen” is nowhere defined in law.


57 posted on 01/09/2016 10:55:36 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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