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To: ridesthemiles
As I understand Natural Born citizen, BOTH parents must be citizens of the USA when the child is born.

This requirement does NOT exist in law. If so, then there have been two Presidents in our nation's history who would have failed this requirement. Chester A. Arthur, and B. H. Obama. There is nothing in the Constitution, nor the 14th Amendment which speaks to a requirement of both parents having been born U.S. citizens. There is no case law either. There are opinions of scholars.

187 posted on 01/04/2012 11:14:44 AM PST by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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To: ridesthemiles
I meant to type, ". . . requirement of both parents being citizens . . . "

I did find informtation relating to a requirment that the parents of the person born in the U.S. having allegiance only to their adoptive country (the U.S.) while not having any allegiance to their home country or any other country. I also found mention that once the parents of a person born in the U.S. have become naturalized citizens, then their offspring automatically have NBC status. Rubio's parents were in the U.S. 19 years when he was born, and became U.S. citizens within a few years after Rubio's birth. Thus, Rubio would, by Constitutional law, be eligible to run for POTUS.

188 posted on 01/04/2012 11:20:34 AM PST by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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To: SoldierDad
4 Supreme Court Cases define "natural born citizen"
191 posted on 01/04/2012 1:04:47 PM PST by Godebert
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