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How can Ted Cruze become president being of Canadian birth?
His mother was born in the US and was a US citizen when he was born in Canada. Not long after he was born, the family moved to Texas. He claimed dual citizenship in the US and Canada and later renounced his Canadian citizenship. Whether he a natural born US citizen seems questionable. If he is nominated for President, I would expect the Democrats to file suit in federal court and get a ruling about his qualification for President. The Supreme Court has never ruled on the precise definition of the phrase "natural born citizen" as used in the Constitution.
Who are natural born citizen?
ones who are born in the country they are citizens
Can immigrants run for federal office?
Yes, only the President is required to be a natural-born citizen of the United States.
What is the difference between a natural born citizen and a us citizen?
You are a natural born citizen of the United States if you were born in territory belonging to the United States. You can still be a naturalized U.S. citizen if you weren't born in the U.S by going through legal procedures, but you can never be a natural born citizen unless you born as one. The Supreme Court has never ruled on the exact meaning of the phrase "natural born" which appears is the US Constitution as a requirement for the US president. Persons born in foreign countries with two US citizens as parents are US citizens but it is not known whether they are legally natural born.
Is Gov Schwarzenegger a natural born US citizen?
No, he was born in Austria. Therefore he cannot be a natural born citizen.
What a natural Born citizen?
A person born in the territory of the United States of America or to United States citizen parents would be a natural born citizen of the United States.
What is a natural born citizen?
A person born in the territory of the United States of America or to United States citizen parents would be a natural born citizen of the United States.
What is a native born citizen?
Any person who is born in US territory is considered as a native born citizen,(Children born of diplomats in foreign embassies within the US are not natural born US citizens because foreign embassies are considered to belong to nation that owns the embassy. ) There is a question about whether children born of US citizens outside of the US are natural born . This phase appears in the US Constitution as one of the requirement of the president, but the Supreme court has never ruled on its exact meaning.
Is Barack Obama considered to be a natural born citizen when one of his parents is a foreigner?
He may have been born in Hawaii, but the Supreme Court in 1800's set the precedence that the constitutional interpretation of "natural born citizen" requires both parents to be US citizens. Therefore if one parent is not a citizen of the united states of America, then the person does not qualify as a natural born citizen and cannot be president of the united states of America. This was and is the only time the Supreme Court has ever ruled to define the meaning of "natural born citizen" and it is therefore the only precedence and cannot be changed until after the Supreme Court decides another definition should take precedence. Since that did not occur before Obama became president, he is not legally our president. **SEE BELOW**A person born in the US is a "natural born citizen" (with minor exceptions, e.g., children of diplomats). Even the children of undocumented aliens are citizens when born in the US. **SEE BELOW**Generally speaking a person born in the US is a "natural born citizen". However this does not apply when determining if a person meets the qualifications to be President of the USA - Again the constitution did not define "natural born citizen" so the Supreme Court did in terms of meeting qualifications to be President of the USA - They determined that both parents must be US citizens to qualify as "natural born citizen". Your opinion in paragraph 2 above does not take presedence over the Supreme Court of the land. I know many have been mis-lead on this birther issue in terms of whether or not Barack Obama was born in Hawaii or Kenya - that is not the issue. The issue is whether or not both of his parents were US citizens to meet the Supreme Court Decision. In his case, they both were not US citizens and that is the real issue. **SEE BELOW**The Supreme Court decision referred to above has to do with persons born OUTSIDE THE US - see related link. It does not apply to Barack Obama, who was born in the State of Hawaii. The Supreme Court has consistently refused to hear lawsuits claiming that Mr. Obama is not a US citizen.**SEE BELOW**Here are some excerpts from law experts on the subject - note both parents must be US citizens for a natural born to be a citizen."The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first. For the purposes of this case it is not necessary to solve these doubts. It is sufficient for everything we have now to consider that all children born of citizen parents within the jurisdiction are themselves citizens." (Emphasis added.)"It is sufficient for everything we have now to consider that all children born of citizen parents within the jurisdiction are themselves citizens."This class is specifically defined as "natural-born citizens" by the Court. The other class - those born in the US without citizen "parents" - may or may not be "citizens". But the Minor Court never suggested that this other class might also be natural-born citizens.It's quite the opposite. The Minor Court makes clear that this class are not Article 2 Section 1 natural-born citizens. If this other class were natural-born there would be no doubt as to their citizenship.This class is specifically defined as "natural-born citizens" by the Court. The other class - those born in the US without citizen "parents" - may or may not be "citizens". But the Minor Court never suggested that this other class might also be natural-born citizens.It's quite the opposite. The Minor Court makes clear that this class are not Article 2 Section 1 natural-born citizens. If this other class were natural-born there would be no doubt as to their citizenship.The Minor Court refrained from making a "citizenship" determination as to that class, but the Court did note that they were a different class. Later, in 1898, the Court in Wong Kim Ark took the question on directly as to who is a citizenunder the 14th Amendment, but that case did not directly construe Article 2 Section 1, whereas Minor did.In order to avoid construing the 14th Amendment, the Court in Minor had to define those who fit into the class of "natural-born citizens". Mrs. Minor fit into that class. Mr. Obama does not.This is so very evident by the fact that the Minor Court specifically states that the "citizenship" of those who have non-citizen parents was historically subject to doubt. Whether the 14th Amendment nullified those doubts was irrelevant to the Court in Minor, since Mrs. Minor was a natural-born citizen.The 14th Amendment specifically confers only"citizenship". In Minor, the US Supreme Court directly recognized that natural-born citizens were a class of citizens who did not need the 14th Amendment to establish citizenship. The class of natural-born citizens was perfectly defined in the Minor case.Therefore, we have a direct determination by the US Supreme Court which defines a natural-born citizen as a person born in the US to parents who are citizens. The citizenship of this class has never been in doubt. The citizenship of the other class was in doubt. But even if that doubt was erased - as to their citizenship - that they are not natural-born citizens was established as precedent by the Supreme Court in Minor. In order for that precedent to be reversed, one of two things are necessary:- a Constitutional amendment which specifically defines "natural-born Citizen" more inclusively than Minor did , or;- a Supreme Court case which overrules the definition of natural-born citizen in the Minor caseWe have neither.Minor was decided seven years after the adoption of the 14th Amendment. The Supreme Court in Minor did not consider anyone but those born of citizen parents on US soil to be natural-born citizens. Later, in Wong Kim Ark, the Supreme Court stated that persons born on US soil to (some) alien parents were "citizens", but that case specifically construed only the 14th Amendment.So, there you have it folks - Obama is not considered a natural born citizen because one of his parents was not a citizen of the USA.
Do both parents have to be citizens for someone to be considered a natural born citizen?
No, only one parent needs to be a citizen for someone to be considered a natural born citizen.
Who is a natural born citizen of this country?
me
For what offices mentioned in the constitution must a person be a natural-born citizen?
Only for the offices of the US President and US Vice President must a citizen be natural-born. All other political offices in the United States federal government can be held by former immigrants.
