[Reno89519]

Consider that constitutional scholar, no less than Ted Cruz promoted the point that you had to have two citizen, parents to be a natural born citizen. Until he decide to run for president, and had to admit that his dad was a Cuban and that he was born in Calgary, Canada, where his parents were then living as residents. The issue has come up previously. When McCain ran for president., Congress actually passed a resolution to recognize that since he was born in Panama, while his parents were stationed there in the military, Congress was extending natural born citizen status to military dependents. Imagine otherwise that families would have to rush home to pop out their kids. The constitution is fairly clear about this, there are court rulings on this in the past, our current problem is the Supreme Court does not want to touch the topic, so they keep turning back challenges, saying that the challenger has no standing. Apparently no one has standing to address this issue. So it festers.

traditionally, citizenship, follow the father, then in the 60s I believe the law changed to follow either parent. Therefore, it seems as a practical matter that, if at least one parent is a US citizen, and the child is born in the US, there seems to be support that that kid is a citizen. But is there a clarity about whether the child is a natural born citizen since the second parent is not a citizen. if the child does not have dual citizenship, then it makes a clearer argument.

I and a few others are of the firm opinion, that if the child does not have two citizen parents, they are not a natural born citizen. They are just a citizen. Therefore, they are not eligible for president or vice president.

Personally, I will not vote for a ticket that includes someone not eligible to be president.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I understand your position.

Others say, that if you are a citizen by birth, and didn’t have to go through the naturalization process, as an immigrant, to become a citizen, then you are natural born.

There are people on Free Republic on both sides of the issue. I suspect the general public doesn’t care or know about this issue at all.

Realistically, your position will not stop anyone from running for president or vice-president. I wish the courts will address this, but they probably never will.

I expect this to come up in the future more and more, as so many immigrants, legal and otherwise, have come to America in recent decades. And we will see more and more politicians who are 1st generation of their families born in America. There too, would be good to have a definite court ruling on what natural born citizenship means.