Good for Sen. Rubio.
Incidentally, since my mother was born in Canada, I am not a natural born citizen either.
Well...according to post number 12 you’re good to go. lol
If she became a naturalized citizen by the time of your birth, that would fix that. In little barry dunham’s case, his claimed father was never a citizen of the U.S. and at the time of barry’s birth, his mother Stanley Ann Dunham was not old enough to pass even citizenship on to him, so if he was not born in HI (ahem, he wasn’t), he wasn’t even a citizen until someone at some past time (perhaps no more than five years ago) in Hawaii forged a birth documentation for the bastard.
“Incidentally, since my mother was born in Canada, I am not a natural born citizen either.”
Nonsense. Your parents’ birth doesn’t matter. It’s YOU who matters.
My father was likewise born in Canada (of US parents, incidentally). But while we always have to go through conniptions any time employment/clearance is applied for, it’s because of him, not me.
If she was a naturalized citizen before you were born, you would be natural born. For example, Dukakis was eligible because of this.
If she was naturalized BEFORE you were born here and your father was also a citizen at that time, then you’re good to go!
JC
“Incidentally, since my mother was born in Canada, I am not a natural born citizen either.”
Just to clarify for those reading your post. I don’t know what your NBC status is, but your mother being born in Canada does not necessarily make you ineligible.
***It was her U.S. citizenship status at the time of your birth***,
not her place of birth. Very different.
I’m sure that’s what you meant.
Where she was born doesn't matter. Was she a citizen of the US at the time you were born? That's what counts. Children of naturalized citizens are as eligible as those of natural born citizens.
Only if she wasn’t a naturalized U.S. citizen at the time of your birth.
Stepan12, your mother and father needed only to be a citizens when you were born, naturalized, native-born, or natural born, and you to be born on sovereign soil. Will you be a candidate?
When someone tries to address the possible extensions to who is natural born, questions quickly arise. Article II Section 1 clearly eliminates many who could make fine presidents, but, since the majority of people are natural born, while it isn't a perfect rule, it seres the purpose of limiting the number of those with clear potential to be enemies of the state. Many attempts to amend Article II Section 1 have failed, and probably for good, or for understandable political reasons.
Just as it was politically expedient to promote McCain from citizen to natural born citizen for Obama’s election, many attempts at amending Article II were to promote an individual whom the opposite party saw no reason to support, such as Orren Hatch’s amendment attempt to make Schwarzenegger eligible. The two attempts by :John Conyers may have been intended to make Obama eligible. There were five other amendments to change Article II Section 1 between 2000 and 2007. The bill sponsored by Obama and his campaign chair, Clare McCaskill, in February 2008, "A Bill to Insure That Foreign Born Children of Military Citizens is Eligible to the Presidency," SB2678, could have become an amendment, but there wasn't time before the election, and McCain's campaign would have been stymied. Clare, Barack and Axelrod certainly knew that, so this bill was just for talking points. Everyone knew of McCain's ineligibility, since this bill and SR511 spelled it out. They also knew about Obama, since the hearings for both SB2678 and SR511 made "born to two parents who were citizens" the core of their legal argument.
Since natural born citizenship is only required of our president, and since citizens who immigrated or whose parents intended to immigrate have a special understanding of our freedoms, they may be especially useful in the State Department or Defense. Obama is the perfect example of the wisdom of Articel II Section 1; remarkably, he told us as much. Barack told us on Fightthesmears.com that he was “...born a subject of the British Commonwealth”, and called himself, correctly, “A native-born citizen of the US,” which is the language of the 14th Amendment for a jus soli citizen, like Wong Kim Ark, born on our soil of parents who were not both citizens. Barack was careful and legally inscrutable. He knew that the media would help to confuse citizens over the settled, but labyrithine citizenship law. Barack famously explained that he didn't feel bound by the negative principles expounded by the Constitution.