BUT it's probably the case (only called into question recently, by Trump/birthers) that you can be the President if you were a birthright citizen born to US citizens abroad
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
I believe there was at least one President who this actually applied to, although I could be wrong, but if so it was in a country that didn't automatically grant citizenship to people born there.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
Someday we'll probably see someone run who's like my high school friend's wife, a dual citizen by birth (in her case born in France to American citizens), which will be interesting
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
There’s always the McCain issue.
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Replying to @bazzalisk @arthur_affect and
Yeah, and I'm pretty sure he was clearly eligible?
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Replying to @bazzalisk @BootlegGirl and
At the time of his birth he *wasn’t* granted automatic US citizenship.
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Replying to @bazzalisk @BootlegGirl and
He was given it retroactively by an act of congress.
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Replying to @bazzalisk @BootlegGirl and
Since the term “natural born citizen” isn’t defined anywhere it’s unclear what this means.
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Replying to @bazzalisk @BootlegGirl and
Under the English common law principle that they probably got it from ("natural born subjects of the Crown") you're equally natural born if it's by jus soli ("right of soil") or jus sanguinis ("right of blood")
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Ironically, historically the former has been seen as the more liberal principle and the latter the more restrictive and conservative - and it still is when people bring up the specter of "anchor babies" and the like
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bazzalisk and
The idea that ONLY jus soli can make a person "natural born" is something that was always kind of floating in the air - probably ironically because the 14th Amendment made birthright citizenship such a bedrock principle for civil rights for PoC
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bazzalisk and
They were probably worried about a MacDuff situation, tbh
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