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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Replying to @arthur_affect @bazzalisk and
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
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @bazzalisk and
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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This is a load of shit but I guess it's the kind of thing you'd believe if you were committed to maximal nativism
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