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To: Crystal Cove

Yes your sister is an American Citizen, but since she was born outside of the US she most likely would not be considered a “Natural born Citizen”. Article II section I of the Constitution: “No person except a natural born Citizen,....shall be eligible to the office of President”. March 4,1789, goes into effect. At that time in history it was well known to mean: a citizen born on the soil to citizen parents. It needs to be debated in the Supreme Court. Except for Chester Arthur no other President was not a NBC & at the time they did not know that C.A. wasn’t. There are a lot of sites that will define NBC.


126 posted on 02/10/2009 6:05:26 PM PST by classical artist
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To: classical artist; Crystal Cove
A natural born citizen is one who, at birth, is conferred citizenship status and thus didn't have to become a “naturalized” citizen. There is no requirement that the person be born on U.S. soil or that both parents be U.S. citizens. Here are the requirements for having citizenship conferred at birth according to U.S. law passed by Congress under Constitutional authority to define citizenship.

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode08/usc_sec_08_00001401——000-.html

Title 8: Section 1401 defines the following as people who are “citizens of the United States at birth:”

Anyone born inside the United States *
Any Indian or Eskimo born in the United States, provided being a citizen of the U.S. does not impair the person's status as a citizen of the tribe
Any one born outside the United States, both of whose parents are citizens of the U.S., as long as one parent has lived in the U.S.
Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year and the other parent is a U.S. national
Any one born in a U.S. possession, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year
Any one found in the U.S. under the age of five, whose parentage cannot be determined, as long as proof of non-citizenship is not provided by age 21
Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is an alien and as long as the other parent is a citizen of the U.S. who lived in the U.S. for at least five years (with military and diplomatic service included in this time)
A final, historical condition: a person born before 5/24/1934 of an alien father and a U.S. citizen mother who has lived in the U.S.

142 posted on 02/10/2009 6:23:48 PM PST by allmendream ("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
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