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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They were probably worried about a MacDuff situation, tbh
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Or, more seriously, an attempt to import a European noble to act as an elective monarch-president rather than a citizen-president, which wouldn't have been impossible.
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But it's ironic that it only crystallized as this right-wing belief thanks to birtherism And let's be real, the passion behind it isn't because they're mad Obama's mom may not have physically been within US borders when he was born but that she got knocked up by an African guy
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Okay I'm looking it up and apparently one set of birther arguments is that "natural born" means you have to be a citizen at birth BOTH by jus soli and jus sanguinis, through BOTH parents (so the possibility Obama inherited Kenyan citizenship from his father is disqualifying)
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Well, the question with McCain is whether you can be a NBC if your Jus Sanguinis citizenship wasn’t conferred at birth, but a year or two later due to a rules change.
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Really? He was born to two US citizens. Under US law at the time, as long as one of them had maintained the minimum residence requirements, he'd be entitled to US citizenship, and his parents only got married in '33, while his mother was still at USC.
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