Do YOU know ANYONE who has taken that test lately and was given the study guide?
If the answer to those two queries is no, then you need to not question nor attempt to correct me.
Besides which, Ted lived in Canada a number of years after his birth and should have had a clue that he "MIGHT" have dual citizenship PRIOR to 2014! He is either LYING about not knowing, or he isn't anywhere near as "intelligent" as he and his supporters claim.
If YOU are correct, then every single anchor baby, from ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, is eligible to be the president, IF he or she meets the very few other qualifications. IS THAT WHAT OUR FFS HAD IN MIND? I TRULY DOUBT THAT !
How can we find a link to the naturalization study guide handy. I think I will look it up, but I can’t post links. Thanks.
There has never been a 3rd category. There has only been natural and naturalized.
No document, no birth certificate, no court ruling ever referred to a 3rd category. It does not exist, it never existed.
More than 200 years ago President Madison settled the issue that Americans born abroad to an American father either at sea, in a territory, or in a foreign jurisdiction need not be naturalized as long as the father maintained a ‘domicile’ in the United States.
There is a legal distinction between ‘domicile’ and ‘residence’; you should look it up. For example, Thomas Jefferson as US Ambassador to France maintained a residence in Paris but maintained his domicile at Monticello. If he had had children in Paris, they would be natural citizens and would not need to be naturalized.
Natural Citizen = Natural Born Citizen not= naturalized citizen.
The BS about Vattel was about subjects, not citizens. Big difference. It was used in common law which was derived from English common law because that is what the colonies used as a standard. American colonists after the Declaration of Independence was signed and ratified were no longer subjects, they were citizens; very big difference in context and meaning.
The requirement for natural = natural born and not naturalized was brought to General Washington by John Jay who cautioned that future presidents serving as Commanders in Chief should have no other allegiances or loyalties, and therefore, should never be naturalized.
Dual citizenship was prohibited.
Women were not allowed to vote. All of their rights were under their husband. The only social assessment of a women’s status was whether her marriage to an American was legitimate. She could have any origin but her marriage had to be legitimate in order for the children to not be bastards. Therefore, if her marriage was considered by society as legitimate meaning approved by the parish or by a justice of the peace, then her children were natural born of their American father. Her status was immediately that of her husbands upon a lawful marriage taking place. She could be the daughter of an American father or of a colonist father, she could be French, German, Iroquois, Cherokee etc. It was only necessary that her marriage be considered lawful and legitimate.
A married woman’s status in the days before the 19th Amendment was entirely determined by that of her husband and the legitimacy of her marriage. If she was born in a territory or on a reservation, she immediately became an American when she married an American and she was completely under the authority of her husband. If her husband was American, her status was that she was the same as her husband, an American. She was not considered a citizen because only citizens could vote and women were not allowed to vote.
In those days, there was the American man who determined the birthright of his sons inside a legitimately recognized marriage. Some parishes and religious sects did not allow marriage outside the faith or to Indians or foreigners unless approved by the sect or parish. His family was considered an American family if the father was American and the marriage was legitimate. The term ‘citizen’ was used exclusively in the context of voting, running for office or in appointments of government officials and jurists. Jury duty was also confined to citizens. Women were not appointed to government positions, they were not allowed to vote, they could not run for office.