If you had to choose, then you weren't natural born, because you were not fully subject to the jurisdiction of the United States at birth, there was another jurisdiction.
“If you had to choose, then you weren’t natural born, because you were not fully subject to the jurisdiction of the United States at birth, there was another jurisdiction.”
This is one of the crookedest arrows in the birther quiver. What says you aren’t subject to the jurisdiction of U.S. law if you are able to claim citizenship in another country? Nothing and no one. The previous poster who talked about how they “had” to choose between being a U.S. citizen and a citizen of the Netherlands obviously was so required by Dutch, not U.S. law. Either that, or they were being loose when they say they “had to.”
The U.S. government does not recognize dual citizenship. Which is to say they don’t care about it (as regard citizens by birthright, that is). Other countries may require renouncing all foreign allegience to claim full adult citizenship, but we do not.
No jurisdiction issue arises from dual citizenship, and therefore no constitutional issue. If the Founders and the 14th amendment Framers meant to exclude dual loyalty, they should have said so.
At the time my parents were still legal citizens of the Netherlands with legal green cards to live here in the US. They have been here since 1954.
My mother has become a naturalized US Citizen in the last 10 years.