OK, show me in the Constitution where it says you must have two US citizen parents. Go ahead, I’ll wait here for you to copy and paste the paragraph for all of us to see.
“OK, show me in the Constitution where it says you must have two US citizen parents. Go ahead, I’ll wait here for you to copy and paste the paragraph for all of us to see.”
Constitution of the United States
Analysis and Interpretation of the Constitution
Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States
Senate Document No. 108-17
2002 Edition: Cases Decided to June 28, 2002
Article 2 – Executive Department, Section 1 – The President, Clause 5 – Qualifications. 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[....]
Significantly, however, Congress, in which a number of Framers sat, provided in the Naturalization act of 1790 that ‘‘the children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond the sea, . . .shall be considered as natural born citizens . . . .’’ 102 This phrasing followed the literal terms of British statutes, beginning in 1350, under which persons born abroad, whose parents were both British subjects, would enjoy the same rights of inheritance as those born in England; beginning with laws in 1709 and 1731, these statutes expressly provided that such persons were natural-born subjects of the crown. 103 There is reason to believe, therefore, that the phrase includes persons who become citizens at birth by statute because of their status in being born abroad of American citizens. 104