McCain is actually arguable.
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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 @arthur_affect and
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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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
Except the Constitution elsewhere forbids anyone with a noble title from holding office
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Technically all it says is someone who's currently a US officeholder can't *accept* a title from a foreign country, the more restrictive versions of this (that ever having had a title is disqualifying etc) have been proposed but never enacted
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