I am unsure what the clause must be "natural-born US citizen" means. Does it mean a person have to be born on US soil; or be born a US citizen, a.k.a. have US citizens for parents (at least one), thereby the baby is a naturalized US citizen from birth?
This is quite important as many americans reside abroad thus have children abroad. If an american citizen working in a US Embassy has a child in the country of the Embassy, is the child then not eligible for Presidency later? What about the armed forces, I am sure many high ranking officers reside abroad with their families. Business-people. Globalization fathoms wide.
I understand the rule about not wanting new citizens eligible for Presidential candidates, but not separating between americans who have been citizens by birth, but where some are and some are not born on american soil. That makes no sense to me, it seems covered by the "must have lived in the US for at least 14 years" rule.
2006-10-16
03:25:42
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