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To: Cboldt

So if your parents travel into Canada for the weekend and you’re unfortunately born there, you’re ineligible to be President.


265 posted on 01/12/2016 1:30:11 PM PST by Faith Presses On ("After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations...")
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To: Faith Presses On
-- So if your parents travel into Canada for the weekend and you're unfortunately born there, you're ineligible to be President. --

That's a good question, and I don't know the answer. If the law makes me a citizen of the state my parents are a resident of, then I am the citizen of a state, and a citizen of the US.

Residence and sojourn can complicate the analysis. I would not definitively say that those circumstances preclude state and US citizenship being deemed to occur at birth. Canada's laws may have play too, especially if the citizenship of a child born there depends on the parents being residents there. Law of nations frowns on creating stateless babies.

277 posted on 01/12/2016 1:46:12 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: Faith Presses On

Not if both parents are American Citizens at the time of your birth!


300 posted on 01/12/2016 2:24:23 PM PST by nopardons
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