[BillM]

Under Canadian law he gave up his Canadian citizenship the instant he voted in another country. I know because that is what happened to my sister.

[RC one]

I believe the same was true of an American citizen who voted in a foreign election. I think it was changed in 1992. The whole idea of naturalization is (or was) to ensure there are no divided loyalties. A natural born citizen, by nature of his or citizenship, would have no divided loyalties. My understanding of the 14th amendment leads me to believe that this is why the term "natural born citizen" was used in establishing the qualifications to be POTUS. It was to ensure that there would never be a POTUS with any sort of divided loyalties (not that I think that Ted Cruz has divided loyalties mind you).

The following words were spoken by Teddy Roosevelt on the subject of divided loyalties and citizenship:

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all … The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic … There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

that's all I really want to say about that.