As someone who had a child overseas as well as issuing passports and visas, I do know that my daughter is automatically a citizen entitled to all of the rights and benefits thereof. Whether she can run for the Presidency will be a matter for the courts to decide. I do know that there have been precedents.
John McCain ran for the Presidency in 2008. He also ran in 2000 and did not get the nomination. Vice President Charles Curtis was born in the territory of Kansas on January 25, 1860 — one year before Kansas became a State. Because the Twelfth Amendment requires that Vice Presidents possess the same qualifications as Presidents, the service of Vice President Curtis verifies that the phrase “natural born Citizen” includes birth outside of any State but within U.S. territory. Similarly, Senator Barry Goldwater was born in Arizona before its statehood, yet attained the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in 1964.
So there is still hope for my daughter who just turned 35.
I did not say pass a law defining natural born citizenship for eligibility for the Presidency. The law I want passed is against birthright citizenship, which is the law of the land and part of US Code.
“As someone who had a child overseas as well as issuing passports and visas, I do know that my daughter is automatically a citizen entitled to all of the rights and benefits thereof.”
Yes, as myself. But I still can’t run for president but the U.S. is glad to take my taxes.
When are you going to learn to read?