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? asked in Politics & GovernmentImmigration · 8 years ago

Is this a natural born citizen?

If your mother was a natural born citizen at time of birth, you were born in US, and your father however, was the citizen of a differnt country, are you a natural born citizen?

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  • Clive
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    It has nothing to do with your parents. If you were born on US soil, you are a natural-born US citizen. That's all there is to it.

  • 8 years ago

    The definition of a natural born (US) citizen was not only self-evident to the founders, framers and ratifiers of the US Constitution., but to 43* of the last 44 elected US presidents.

    A "natural born citizen" is a person born a natural member of its father's society, without benefit or need of man-made law. In the case of an Art. II, §1, cl. 4 natural born US citizen: it is a person born within the jurisdiction under the sole allegiance of its US citizen parents from birth.

    Unfortunately, under present court decisions, even the offspring of illegal aliens born in this country are Art. II, §1, cl. 4 natural born US citizen and can be President of the United States, if elected, without ever a transfer of allegiance to support and abide by the US Constitution. Go figure.

    ex animo

    davidfarrar

    *I include Chester Arthur in with the US Presidents who followed the two US citizen-parent rule due to the fact that he lied twice about his fathers naturalization and took steps to hide this fact by leaving instructions to burn all of his personal records after his death.

    Source(s): As reflected by L'Espirit de la Revolution, as articulated by the Declaration of Independence, and accurately reflected in the US Constitution.
  • 8 years ago

    Yes. As long as YOU were born in the country, you are a natural born citizen.

  • 8 years ago

    If you were born in the usa you are a natural born citizen regardless of your parents.

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  • 8 years ago

    Everyone born in the U.S., except those with diplomatic immunity, is a natural born citizen. The rest of the details you gave don't matter.

  • Nex
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Yes. As long as you were born in US regardless of parents' citizenships and/or immigration statuses you are a natural born citizen.

  • 8 years ago

    yes. anyone born in the US is indeed a natural born citizen, period.

  • 8 years ago

    Yes, of course.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    yea!

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