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
They were probably worried about a MacDuff situation, tbh
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Replying to @mssilverstein @bazzalisk and
We've talked about the grisly fact that the MacDuff loophole may not have been because you have to go through a vagina to be "born" but because at the time C-sections were fatal and therefore only done if the mother was already dying or dead
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So, ironically, you might be able to argue someone whose mother died during delivery can't be a citizen because you can't inherit citizenship from a corpse
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
But being able to inherit from a deceased parent is a well established thing going all the way back at least to Ancient Rome.
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Replying to @bazzalisk @arthur_affect and
what about if your grandfather is a noble and your father is technically a deficient clone of him
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