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Huh? Some people don't discard the comma after "States" but I'm not counting them. We're left with two paths...one is for those who get citizenship from being natural born citizens. Woodrow Wilson had a foreign-born parent but still was President. So it's not foreign-born parents that throw it out. Foreign-parent citizenship some might say, but that's also not right.

Apparently you are not aware of the 1854 statute that made Wilson's foreign born mother a US citizen upon marriage to an American citizen, which therefore, made Woodrow Wilson who was born in the United States, born of US parents, a natural born citizen. This stuff has been gone over a thousand times on FR over the last 2 years.

116 posted on 07/21/2010 1:53:05 PM PDT by Red Steel

1854, not 1855?

Okay, so I got the year wrong.

118 posted on 07/21/2010 1:55:27 PM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)

Chester Arthur’s parents were not both American, yet he was President because he was natural born...i.e., obtained his natural state/citizenship by birth, not requiring naturalization.

121 posted on 07/21/2010 1:57:33 PM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)

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