I never read articles at the links.
I guess I should have?
To me a NBC is from American citizens, if either parent is from another country then said person fails to qualify, period.
Sorry to mislead anyone, my rule is to not go to a link, if its not in the header it shouldn’t be posted.
If it can mislead one it can mislead many.
To me a NBC is from American citizens, if either parent is from another country then said person fails to qualify,period.
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This is exactly how it is.Bottom line, hook and sinker.
From Leo Donofrio’s Natural Born Citizen Blog :
RECAP JUSTIAGATE
My second report on JustiaGate exposed the surgical scrubbing of Minor v. Happersett from 25 cases – at Justia’s Supreme Court Center – which cited the vital Supreme Court decision which classifies those born in the country to parents who are citizens as “natural-born citizens”, such classification excluding Obama from eligibility:
“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 themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.” Minor v. Happersett, 154 U.S. 116, 167 (1874).
Because Minor v. Happersett directly implies that Obama is not eligible – even assuming he was born in the US – the case has been the subject of an intense disinformation campaign across the web. And until JustiaGate’s revelations, Obama supporters were more able to levy false attacks upon Minor, claiming it was a voting rights precedent, not a citizenship precedent, and that Minor was “disgraced” and overruled by the 19th Amendment. But none of that was even remotely true.
The whole time, the Supreme Court opinions which directly cite Minor as precedent on the definition of federal citizenship – and as a continuing precedent on voting rights despite the adoption of the 19th Amendment – were “mangled” at Justia (apparently Stanley’s choice of words via his admission in the CNET interview) – the favored legal research engine by Google.
And the war against Minor’s relevance was somewhat successful. But all the while, hidden below the surface of fragged Google analytics and Justia subterfuge was a complete body of case-law spanning 100 years… all of which bears out the respect given to Minor v Happersett by many subsequent Supreme Court opinions.
Excerpt. Read more at :
http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/
Just to be clear on what you think, are you saying that if one's parent is from another country, even if that parent becomes an American citizen before the child is born, the child cannot be an NBC?
Maybe you just got caught up in brevity? Once the parent becomes an American citizen, their place of birth is no longer relevant when conferring natural born citizenship on their children. It's only when one parent has not yet become an American citizen that the child fails the NBC test.
-PJ