I have since looked it up.
The law is:
(c) Notwithstanding the provision of subsection (a) of this section, a person born, after December 23, 1952, outside the United States and out of wedlock shall be held to have acquired at birth the nationality status of his mother, if the mother had the nationality of the United States at the time of such person’s birth, and if the mother had previously been physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of one year
Then you go to the argument of definitions of natural born citizens and whatnot as to whether is eligible.
SO was she married or NOT. OBamanazi’s best claim is that she was NOT married.
So called birthers need to find the documentation that she WAS married.
IF Obama SR was married..the whole thing is MOOT because she couldn’t have been legally married and the child was born out of wedlock.
BUT..what if she was legally married in the country he was born in ..in a marriage that was legal there..but it was not legal in the US?
These are tangled issues with no clear cut answer. There surely is some case law out there somewhere talking about this very issue.
Is that the law that was in effect at the time. Because the one I’ve seen doesn’t say that. It has provisions about 5 years after the age of 14, and etc.