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Where the parents where born is immaterial. Mentioning it only muddies the water.

This seems to be in the context of recent edits to Natural-born-citizen clause‎. The issue is that the 14th Amendment which established that a person born on US soil (with rare exceptions, such as children of ambassadors or a child born in a region of the U.S. that has been occupied by a foreign enemy during a war) is a citizen was, obviously, adopted after the original constitution, and the natural-born-citizen clause is part of the original Constitution. The extent to which the 14th Amendment supersedes the original Constitution isn't 100% clear. For example, the idea that the natural-born-citizen clause is completely nullified on the grounds that it would deny naturalized citizens equal protection under the law has been rejected, and naturalized citizens are not allowed to be president. So an argument could be made that a would-be president with non-citizen parents, although a citizen at birth because of the 14th Amendment, isn't a natural-born-citizen because of the way that term was understood at the time the Constitution was adopted. The fact that several people have been president even though one of their parents wasn't a citizen weighs against this argument. Jc3s5h (talk) 16:20, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

June 2017

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