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To: Harlan1196
But his mother was an American citizen so your point is irrelevant.

Now you are demonstrating to me that you have not learned enough about this topic to discuss it sensibly. Aldo Mario Bellei had an American Mother too, yet he lost his citizenship because he didn't comply with residency requirements. "Natural born citizens" do not have to comply with any residency requirements, and their citizenship cannot be stripped away from them unless they commit an affirmative act of Allegiance to another nation.

A "natural born citizen" does not have a choice to be a citizen of another country, he has only ONE CHOICE, and that is his "natural" country. Anyone that has a choice is not a "natural citizen", they are a hybrid of two or more Nations. (This condition did not even exist prior to 1922. Women automatically acquired the citizenship of their Husbands upon Marriage. ) Allowing them into the office of the Presidency is causing EXACTLY what the founders created Article II to PREVENT.

160 posted on 02/18/2012 2:09:58 PM PST by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: DiogenesLamp
A "natural born citizen" does not have a choice to be a citizen of another country, he has only ONE CHOICE, and that is his "natural" country.

The only reason Obama had a choice was because of a foreign citizenship law. It's still amazing to me that there are people on FreeRepublic who cling to the idea that foreign laws should determine who can and can't be President of the United States.

162 posted on 02/18/2012 2:30:00 PM PST by Kleon
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To: DiogenesLamp; Harlan1196

“Aldo Mario Bellei had an American Mother too, yet he lost his citizenship because he didn’t comply with residency requirements.”

Ummm....

“1. The appellee, Aldo Mario Bellei (hereinafter the plaintiff), was born in Italy on December 22, 1939. He is now 31 years of age...

2. The plaintiff’s father has always been a citizen of Italy and never has acquired United States citizenship. The plaintiff’s mother, however, was born in Philadelphia in 1915 and thus was a native-born United States citizen...The mother and father were married in Philadelphia on the mother’s 24th birthday, March 14, 1939. Nine days later, on March 23, the newlyweds departed for Italy. They have resided there ever since.

...The plaintiff resided in Italy from the time of his birth until recently. He currently resides in England, where he has employment as an electronics engineer with an organization engaged in the NATO defense program.”

IOW, an Italian and an American marry, and 9 days later, leave for Italy where they spend the rest of their lives. While living in Italy, they have a son, who never lives in the US. At 31, he decides he is a US citizen because he was born abroad to ONE US citizen.

Bellei didn’t lose what he never had.


171 posted on 02/18/2012 3:10:33 PM PST by Mr Rogers ("they found themselves made strangers in their own country")
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