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Originally Posted by CosmicTang
If you are born to an American parent, you're American, no matter where you were born. That's why McCain is eligible.
If two French people were here on vacation and had their kid (which they likely wouldn't be because you can't fly that late into a pregnancy) he/she would likely have dual citizenship.
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Citizenship != eligibility to be President. "Natural-born citizen," at least 35 years of age, and 14 years a resident of the U.S. = eligibility to be president.
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Originally Posted by Steve Awesome
This is all a master plan to get the 14th amendment tossed out so Arnold can be McCaine's running mate.
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It'd actually have to be an amendment to override Article II, Section 1 of the main body of the U.S. Constitution. The 14th amendment only greater clarifies what determines certain modes of citizenship.
I wouldn't put it past the Republican party that this is all part of that game, though... since it is the executive, in a decidedly partisan cabinet, that is tossing the first ball here.