Don’t get yourself all worked up. If he was born in the USA, he is a citizen.
Why not? We have a Kenyan, Indonesian, Muslim for TOTUS right now.
I do not have time to research it at the moment but I believe by him being born here makes him a citizen of the USA.
He is more qualified than Obama, I don’t think Jindal put “Indian” on his college applications, the same way Obama put “indonesian” on his....
If you go by the original intent, which is explicitly laid out in the Federalist Papers, not the interpretation, yes, he would be eligible, his parents are naturalized citizens who GAVE UP the allegiance to their birth country to become AMERICAN citizens AND he was born here!
The *Constitution of the United States* covers this issue in the 14th Amendment. If Jindal was born in the United States, he is a citizen. It does not matter what citizenship status his parents hold.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthright_citizenship_in_the_United_States
Jindal was born here. That’s what “birthright citizenship” is all about. That’s why the Chinese pay big bucks to fly pregnant women here, have them give birth in a US hospital, and then fly home with their baby...a new US citizen. It may be a little nutty, but that’s the law.
That said, since it is so easy, why couldn’t Obama even claim this much? People here get distracted by where his father was born, but the truth is, that doesn’t matter. If he was born here, he’s a citizen. So why doesn’t he show us the birth certificate that proves that he was born here - on such and such a day, at such and such a time, in such and such a US hospital. Probably because he wasn’t born here.
Jindal was.
Don’t get me wrong... I like the guy - but Bobby is not presidential material... Good guy ... Conservative and all - but he just doesn’t have that magic thing called charisma - macho charisma... for a nationwide audience... When he gave that Republican position speech a year or two ago - OMG how lame can one get... He is looking better now since he stood strong on the Gulf Shore... But....
Never the less... Hell - every other illegal alien parent is producing ‘American Citizens’ - at least his parents were here legally...
Yes, he is eligible because not a single person amomg us “has standing” to question otherwise
YES.
Jindhal is a natural-born citizen of the USA.
And people who say otherwise need to lay off the wacky weed.
No. BOTH his parents would have had to be naturalized citizens before his birth.
The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights. ... I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country.
Therefore, even a person born in the US is not a natural-born citizen if both parents are not citizens. So, no, he would not.
Yes... the natural born provision is now derelict. I see no reason I can’t run for President even though I was born in Canada.
I’m so tired of goofy presidents.
At this stage, it appears anyone is eligible to be POTUS.
only if he switches parties
“Is Bobby Jindal Eligible To Become President If He Was Born Before Parents Were Naturalized?”
Yes.
If he was born of non-citizens even if so in the USA and though his parents were later naturalized he is not eligible for POTUSA. This is personal with me as my brother and I who both served in WWII (brother killed on Okinawa) were born in USA of Russian immigrants not naturalized before our births. I gave up the thought of being POTUSA as a youth but still felt very proud to serve the Nation. In my case a unique circumstance exists because my father died before I was born.
No, he is not. The is no doubt. Here is one of fifty or so citations, this from Chief Justice Morrison Waite. The statement is in Waite's decision for a case called Minor v. Happerstett. It was cited in many other cases, including the famous Wong Kim Ark, where Wong Kim, San Francisco born, was deemed a “citizen,” but not a “natural born citizen”, and natural born citizenship is what is required to be president. Wong Kim's parents were unable to naturalize because China prohibited the repudiation of citizenship at the time.:
“The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.”
Is Obama legally President? No, because he was born a British subject. How do we know? He told us, many times. Did Obama ever tell us he was a natural born citizen? No. Why did our Congress keep quiet? Because McCain was also ineligible. And probably too, for the the reason that many Republicans knew that Congress was filled with Lindsey Grahams, Collins and Snow, Specter, an anyone sticking his neck out would be a pariah in his or her own party for giving the election to Hillary. They all, every Senator signed a document in Apr 2008, Senate Res. 511, sponsored by Pat Leahy and Clari McCaskill, in which Pat confirms that a natural born citizen is born of citizen parents. Now we must unravel mess.