I love you, trumandogz; but if you were my brother or sister, I would give you a good whack on the side of the head.
Read this:
Doesn’t the US Constitution forbid dual citizenship?
No.
The Supreme Court in its 1967 ruling in Afroyim v. Rusk, used an argument derived from the 14th Amendment to the Constitution to affirm a right to dual citizenship.
If I am a dual US citizen, can I lose my US citizenship?
No.
U.S. law forbids the government from taking your citizenship from you against your will, but it does permit you to give it up voluntarily. This is a formal written procedure on your part through a U.S. Embassy.
It is now assume that a U.S. citizen intends to retain (not give up) his/her U.S. citizenship if he/she:
1. Is naturalized in a foreign country.
2. Takes a routine oath of allegiance to a foreign country.
Is it against the law to have more than one passport?
No.
There is nothing in U.S. law forbidding a US citizen to possess both a U.S. passport and a foreign passport provided the person really is a citizen of both countries.
Is a child born outside the US to American parents eligible to become President?
yes.
The U.S. Constitution (Article II, Section 1, Subsection 4) says: “No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.”
The term “natural born citizen” is not used anywhere else in the Constitution, and it has never been the subject of any federal court ruling.
At least three Presidential candidates in recent memory were born outside any U.S. state.
o Barry Goldwater, the 1964 Republican candidate, was born in the Arizona Territory in 1909 (Arizona did not become the 48th state until 1912). Goldwater lost the 1964 election to Lyndon Johnson.
o George Romney, a 1968 Republican hopeful, was born in Mexico in 1907 to American parents who had moved there to escape anti-Mormon persecution in the US. (Contrary to a widely held popular misconception, by the way, Romney’s parents were settlers in Mexico, not missionaries.) Romney’s campaign fizzled following a gaffe about his having been “brainwashed” regarding US involvement in the Vietnam conflict.
o John McCain, an early Republican hopeful in the current (2000) campaign, was born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936 to American parents. McCain dropped out of the campaign in favor of the Republicans’ eventual nominee, George W. Bush.
I am a dual US/Panamanian citizen by birth. Can I vote in both countries without losing my citizenships?
Yes.
Neither U.S. nor Panamanian citizenship law says anything about losing citizenship as a result of voting in an election in another country.
I never did say that dual citizenship was illegal. Instead, the question is what exactly is a natural born citizen?
I have two passports and well, but don’t tell any one here, I don’t want anyone to accuse me of being a traitor.
However, from what I have read in Wiki:
Although the U.S. Supreme Court has never specifically addressed the meaning of “natural born citizen,” there are several Supreme Court decisions that help define citizenship:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-born_citizen