if being born on the land does not award citizenship and it must come from a parent then ...
0bama is not a citizen
his mother was 18 when she gave birth, too young to convey citizenship. and his father was never a citizen.
opps
when do we start swearing in biden?
>> his mother was 18 when she gave birth, too young to convey citizenship. <<
Neither common law nor natural law, as discussed by Sen. Howard’s speech introducing the 14th amendment and innumerable 19th-century court cases would in any way require a mother to be 18, or any age, to convey citizenship. <<
>> and his father was never a citizen <<
But he was married to one, making it evident that he intended, at the time, to be an immigrant, not a wayfaring traveler.
Now, had his mother stayed in Indonesia, you might have a tenuous argument that she surrendered her citizenship, and through her, he did. But this argument would be very tenuous indeed, because it is in fact at the core of the very first Supreme-Court decision related to immigration, wherein the daughter of a Brit who returned to Britain was ruled to be a citizen by birth.
Your best bet would be to say he renounced his citizenship, and that the fact that he claimed to be an immigrant confirms that he thought of himself as having renounced it.