>>If you marry a foreign national and that foreign national
becomes a citizen before the child is born then the child is a Natural Born citizen.<<
But if that person does NOT become a citizen (a 2+ year ordeal) and the child is born on US soil, said child is NOT a Natural Born Citizen, right? And if the parent keeps dual citizenship and a citizen of both the USA and the native country...?
This is getting interesting — I can hold off on bedtime for a short while.
It wouldn’t hurt your cause to toss in a case or 2, but I won’t hold you to that. I am interested in your understanding of the law.
Correct.
Since the Natural Born clause ONLY presents only 1 limitation which is becoming president there could not be a litany of cases being adjudicated in the courts.
However there is McCain.
715, S. Res 511.
“Whereas John Sidney McCain, III, was born to American citizens on an American military base in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That John Sidney McCain, III, is a ``natural born Citizen’’ under Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution of the United States”
Therefore, based on the original meaning of the Constitution, the Framers’ intentions, and subsequent legal
and historical precedent, Senator McCain’s birth to parents who were U.S. citizens, serving on a U.S. military base in
the Panama Canal Zone in 1936, makes him a ``natural born Citizen’’ within the meaning of the Constitution.
LAURENCE H. TRIBE.
THEODORE B. OLSON
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2703939/posts?page=58#58