2007-02-01 15:48:53 · 9 answers · asked by Anat 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Yes, you can. As long as one of your parents were US citizens and have live in the US for at least 5 years sometime before your birth. Article 2, section 1, and sub-section 4 of the US Constitution states that a person must be a natural born citizen of the US to hold the office of President. According to US law, this situation would make you a natural born citizen. You might however, have dual citizenship in the country you were born in.
The following are examples of this:
At least three Presidential candidates in recent memory were born outside the US proper:
Barry Goldwater, the 1964 Republican candidate, was born in the Arizona Territory in 1909 (Arizona did not become the 48th state until 1912). Goldwater lost the 1964 election to Lyndon Johnson.
George Romney, a 1968 Republican hopeful, was born in Mexico in 1907 to American parents who had moved there to escape anti-Mormon persecution in the US. (Contrary to a widely held popular misconception, by the way, Romney's parents were settlers in Mexico, not missionaries.) Romney's campaign fizzled following a gaffe about his having been "brainwashed" by the military establishment into supporting US involvement in the Vietnam conflict.
John McCain, an early Republican hopeful in the current (2000) campaign, was born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936 to American parents. McCain dropped out of the campaign in favor of the Republicans' eventual nominee, George W. Bush.
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2007-02-02 01:21:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first requirement to become a president or Prime Minister of a country is that you should have good contacts with super powers of the world. Then you are King. Look around in various countries how people become president even they did not live in that country.
Use your mind and you will find the answer
2007-02-01 15:54:41 · answer #2 · answered by Ari 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If your parents are US citizens on vacation and you were born in another country, you are considered a US citizen. Therefore, you are eligible to be President.
2007-02-01 15:53:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I help the President on account that he's the President. i do no longer assume he has complete a remarkable activity. i be attentive to we've differing critiques on the economy yet i've got self belief that is falling, jobs are low, wellness care technique desires an universal, we've accepted mess ups and are unable to look to help our own persons although we are spending billions of greenbacks and countless numbers of lives in Iraq, the welfare physique of innovations desires to be more desirable or close down, Social protection is a large number. Bush has achieved no longer something to beef up any of this. i do no longer think of he might desire to be eradicated from place of artwork although except we are booting Cheney with him! particularly, i do no longer evaluate that he has committed an impeachable offense.
2016-11-02 02:43:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just because your parents are American born, doesn't make you an American. If you were born OUTside of the U.S., you are a legal citizen of that country. No, you couldn't become President of the U.S.
2007-02-01 16:37:09 · answer #5 · answered by Rebel-X 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Nope. President must be American born Citizen. That's why we'll never have a "Prezinator" without an act of Congress.
2007-02-01 15:52:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes, you would still be considered a natural born citizen.
2007-02-01 16:38:37 · answer #7 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I wanna to be the Citizen of USA.
2007-02-01 18:02:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol, you are funny! What came first? The chicken or the egg?
No matter, your folks are American's. and so are you. Uless Bush changed that too.
2007-02-01 15:53:26 · answer #9 · answered by cprucka 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋