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Kung Wu what have you been drinking? A traumatic brain injury perhaps? Rubio was born in 1971 in Miami, Florida to Cuban immigrant parents who are naturalized citizens. Put down the crack pipe before you lose all credibllity.
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Huckaboom is rumored to be Romney's choice for VP which would help solidify the conservative base of the party. That is of course if He isn't disqualified because of his birthplace... Hope, Arkansas.“Losers Average Losers.” ― Paul Tudor JonesComment
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Last edited by Kung Wu; April 11, 2012, 07:12 AM.Kung Wu say, man who read woman like book, prefer braille!Comment
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Natural born citizen is simply a person who was born in the U.S. Pretty much everything I have read defines Natural-Born as somebody who is a citizen by "no act of law". If a person owes their citizenship to say "naturalization" they would not be "natural born".
“We must depend on the general law relating to subjects and citizens recognized by all nations for a definition, and that must lead us to the conclusion that every person born in the United States is a natural-born citizen of such States, except that of children born on our soil to temporary sojourners or representatives of foreign Governments.” -- Chairman of House Judiciary Committee, James F. Wilson (Iowa), 1866.
State Department Foreign Affairs Manual
• U.S. citizenship may be acquired either at birth or through naturalization.
• U.S. laws governing the acquisition of citizenship at birth embody two legal principles:
1. Jus soli (the law of the soil), a rule of common law under which the place of a person’s birth determines citizenship. In addition to common law, this principle is embodied in the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the various U.S. citizenship and nationality statutes.
2. Jus sanguinis (the law of the bloodline ), a concept of Roman or civil law under which a person’s citizenship is determined by the citizenship of one or both parents. This rule, frequently called “citizenship by descent” or “derivative citizenship”, is not embodied in the U.S. Constitution, but such citizenship is granted through statute. As laws have changed, the requirements for conferring and retaining derivative citizenship have also changed.
• Naturalization is “the conferring of nationality of a state upon a person after birth, by any means whatsoever” or conferring of citizenship upon a person. Naturalization can be granted automatically or pursuant to an application. Under U.S. law, foreign naturalization acquired automatically is not an expatriating act.
U.S. Code definition
Title 8, Section 1401, of the U.S. Code provides the current definition for a natural-born citizen.
• Anyone born inside the United States and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, which exempts the child of a diplomat from this provision
• Any Indian or Eskimo born in the United States, provided being a citizen of the U.S. does not impair the person's status as a citizen of the tribe
• Any one born outside the United States, both of whose parents are citizens of the U.S., as long as one parent has lived in the U.S.
• Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year and the other parent is a U.S. national
• Any one born in a U.S. possession, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year
• Any one found in the U.S. under the age of five, whose parentage cannot be determined, as long as proof of non-citizenship is not provided by age 21
• Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is an alien and as long as the other parent is a citizen of the U.S. who lived in the U.S. for at least five years (with military and diplomatic service included in this time)Comment
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In 1776, I expect it was defined exactly as Kung explains it.Comment
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