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To: Lurkinanloomin

Good try to salvage something out of your original argument. You have indeed conceded the point I made in post #106 (with a reference), that under U.S. law and precedent, she retained UK citizenship; and, so, President Trump could have claimed UK citizenship by lineage.

Now you ask me to prove something I never said. Did the President’s mother assert UK citizenship after becoming a US citizen. Although extraneous to the issue of whether Donald Trump had no option other being a U.S. citizen at birth (your theory of “natural born”), this is potentially significant for Donald Trump’s children (his mother’s grandchildren).

Under U.S. law, overseas nationals who do not revive their citizenship can only pass citizenship to the next generation. Thus, the grandchildren of the Confederates who fled to Brazil after the U.S. Civil War are not U.S. citizens by lineage. Similarly, the Mormons who fled to Mexico could not pass U.S. citizenship by lineage to their grandchildren. So, since Donald Trump never asserted his right to be a UK citizen, his children don’t have a right to claim UK citizenship. At least, this is US law.

Let me close with a quote from Winston Churchill, when he spoke before a joint session of the U.S. Congress. He said my mother was an American, and my father an Englishman. Thus, I speak to you as Prime Minister instead of as President. He understood our laws with regard to “natural-born.”


114 posted on 06/09/2019 10:13:28 AM PDT by Redmen4ever (u)
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To: Redmen4ever

. Similarly, the Mormons who fled to Mexico could not pass U.S. citizenship by lineage to their grandchildren.
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You just undercut your own argument about George Romney.


115 posted on 06/09/2019 10:16:05 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Redmen4ever

Ted Cruz is as eligible as Churchill.


116 posted on 06/09/2019 10:20:19 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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