To: rxsid
Does US law determine British citizenship? The answer is equally no. Therefore, his admitted British citizenship AT birth is most relavent.In Britain.
It's a simple principle: Citizenship status, including "natural-born" status, is a question of US law. Full stop. The laws of other countries are irrelevant. We don't ask whether the Republic of Panama considered John McCain to be a Panamanian citizen, and we don't give other countries the power to make someone ineligible to be our president by the stroke of a pen.
To: ReignOfError
It's a simple principle: Citizenship status, including "natural-born" status, is a question of US law. Full stop. The laws of other countries are irrelevant. We don't ask whether the Republic of Panama considered John McCain to be a Panamanian citizen, and we don't give other countries the power to make someone ineligible to be our president by the stroke of a pen. That's all very true, but his father's *lack of US Citizenship* may indeed be a factor. No foreign government could make his father a citizen, so no foreign government could affect Junior's status or lack thereof, as a natural born citizen.
468 posted on
08/30/2009 11:36:46 AM PDT by
El Gato
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