I don’t subscribe to the theory that dual citizenship is the problem with Obama. The issue, as I see it, is the citizenship of Obama’s parents. He does not have two U.S. citizen parents. That’s different from Obama himself having dual citizenship.
Other countries’ citizenship laws do not negate U.S. citizenship laws. Each nation has the right to declare who are and are not its citizens.
If Germany declared my father, who was born in the U.S., a citizen because his grandfather was born in Germany and my father’s German citizenship passed to me at birth giving me dual citizenship, that wouldn’t change the fact that I was born on U.S. soil to two U.S. citizen parents and am a natural-born citizen.
I’m going to re-post my previous comment since I didn’t include the additional FReepers you pinged.
I don’t subscribe to the theory that dual citizenship is the problem with Obama. The issue, as I see it, is the citizenship of Obama’s parents. He does not have two U.S. citizen parents. That’s different from Obama himself having dual citizenship.
Other countries’ citizenship laws do not negate U.S. citizenship laws. Each nation has the right to declare who are and are not its citizens.
If Germany declared my father, who was born in the U.S., a citizen because his grandfather was born in Germany and my father’s German citizenship passed to me at birth giving me dual citizenship, that wouldn’t change the fact that I was born on U.S. soil to two U.S. citizen parents and am a natural-born citizen.
Whether or the the BNA recognizes Obama and Dunham’s marriage is irrelevant. What matters is U.S. citizenship law, which according to Minor requires two U.S. citizen parents. Obama can be a U.S. citizen through Dunham and stateless through Senior but still not be a natural-born U.S. citizen. But I think we need a SCOTUS to verify that.