Sorry, but the US Constitution does not forbid dual citizenship. I worked side-by-side with Jews and Syrians in the Navy who all had dual citizenship, either Israel or Syria, and every last one had TSCs. IMO it should be allowed.
OOPS! Should read, “IMO it should NOT be allowed.”
The presidency is a different issue, don’t you agree? Also, when you assume Indonesian citizenship by adoption, wouldn’t you automatically lose your U.S. citizenship?
But they were not running for Prez...
Whole different world I’d say. But I read it differently then you do.
They didn’t get security clearances with their dual citizenship. I know for a fact we don’t do that now.
I don’t think that’s right. The US is one of a few countries that does not allow dual citizenships.
The Constitution requires a person to be a natural-born citizen in order to be eligible to run for president.
Citizenship is not the issue here.
No, it doesn’t disallow dual citizenship.
But it does disqualify one who has dual citizenship from being president.
If, however, he was not born in the U.S., under the law prevailing at the time of his birth, he would not be a U.S. citizen at birth due to his mother's age. While under current law a woman the same age would confer citizenship on her child, the change was not made to apply retroactively.
The question is not of dual citizenship; it is of the place where Osamabama was hatched.
That's a different thing from dual citizenship.
Get a clue!
You can’t hold multi-citizenships and be PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.
Sorry, but the US Constitution does not forbid dual citizenship. I worked side-by-side with Jews and Syrians in the Navy who all had dual citizenship, either Israel or Syria, and every last one had TSCs. IMO it should be allowed.”
I don’t believe that anyone is saying the Constitution says a US citizen cannot have dual citizenship.
The rule applies to anyone who might be President, Vice President, or 3rd in line of succession.
Nobama is in trouble with his status, IMO.
You are right, the Constitution does not forbid dual citizenship.
http://www.usimmigrationsupport.org/dual_citizenship.html
I don’t know why that is even in the article- I thought the issue is that Obama may have been born in Kenya.
Sorry, but the US Constitution does not forbid dual citizenship
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I read somewhere that when he was born that was not the case. I’m not disputing anything you say as I do not know the laws but understand that there have been changes over the years and what is valid now may not have been in 1961.
“Sorry, but the US Constitution does not forbid dual citizenship. I worked side-by-side with Jews and Syrians in the Navy who all had dual citizenship, either Israel or Syria, and every last one had TSCs. IMO it should be allowed.”
From what I understand the issue is where he was born. The potential issue is that he may have been born outside the US, and brought in immediately after.
If so, he cannot be President. No maybes or fudging, he is prohibited by the Constitution.
What is so fricken hard for people to understand that if the other country does not allow dual citizenship, in order to be a citizen of that country, you have to renounce citizenship from the USA.
You are absolutely correct. However, there are some countries which US citizens are forbidden to become dual citizens of, either by American law or by the law of the other country. I believe that Obama would have lost any American citizenship he may have previously had when and if he became an Indonesian citizen. That alone would make him constitutionally ineligible to be POTUS.