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To: PA-RIVER
Obama is right now a British Subject. This blog post has some great research and is worth the read. Here is a snip.

Additionally, if one examines the British Nationality Act of 1981, as amended, there is nothing there which shows that Obama, once having the British citizenship that he acquired by descent from his father at the time of his birth, automatically lost it at age 21. On the other hand, the act contains provisions concerning "declaration of renunciation" at Section 10, 12, and 13. Not that doing so would make Obama an Article II “natural born Citizen,” there is no evidence that Obama ever filed any "declaration of renunciation" of his British citizenship.

What does this mean? Under the Kenyan Constitution, Obama is presumably no longer a Kenyan citizen because he did not renounce at age 21 his British citizenship and his U.S. citizenship (assuming he was born in the U.S.). Obama is still however a British citizen not only under English common law (in the words of Coke and Blackstone, a natural-born subject of the United Kingdom) but also under British citizenship statutes. Neither Kenya's 1963 constitution nor any statute erased the consequences of the British common law and nationality statutes that were in effect at the time of Obama’s and his father’s birth. Obama’s continuing British citizenship is further confirmed by English law which provides that persons born in countries which were Colonies at the time when they were born are still British citizens. Hence, Obama continues to be a British citizen despite Kenya’s independence and new constitution.

Obama, the Putative President of the U.S., was Born a British Subject

125 posted on 10/28/2011 7:23:52 AM PDT by GregNH (Re-Elect "No Body")
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To: GregNH

“once having the British citizenship that he acquired by descent from his father at the time of his birth, automatically lost it at age 21”

So what? it wouldn’t alter his U.S. status, which is his inalienable birthright to claim.

“Obama continues to be a British citizen”

Let’s say he does. So what? Nothing says an NBC can’t be born a dual citizen, despite birthers’ fever dreams.


129 posted on 10/28/2011 8:20:08 AM PDT by Tublecane
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