[–] SuckaFree 4 points -1 points (+3|-4) ago 

No, it does not. If you're born on U.S. soil, territory, military base, or embassy/consulate, you're an American citizen.

[–] DScorp 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

American citizen by naturalization not natural born. Look it up and you too can spend days reading about this, it is a bit complicated but I don't think it is really that complicated if you are like me and many others that want the Constitution and the laws on immigration interprited as written. I'm no lawyer, as most of you aren't also, but we can read and we went to school when we we had real history, civics and social studies taught.

[–] nomoss 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Do some homework for you DO NOT know what you are talking about.

[–] archon50000 1 point 7 points (+8|-1) ago 

Being an American citizen is not sufficient to be President. Natural born citizen is a subset of American citizens who were ALL of the below:

1. born on USA soil

2. mother is a citizen

3. father is a citizen.

[–] SuckaFree ago 

Look up the rules again, my friend. It's an either/or situation not all 3.

[–] JohnQ-Arkenstone ago 

No question that Harris is NOT eligible to be VP, and could never be installed as President in accordance with Article II. Even a NATURALIZED CITIZEN can NEVER legally become President. The definition of NATURAL BORN CITIZEN by the author who INVENTED the LEGAL term, is a person who is born of TWO CITIZENS OF THE SAME NATION. In other words, even if ONE OF YOUR PARENTS IS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN YOU ARE STILL NOT ELIGIBLE. Sadly that would even disqualify some of the Trump kids.

It was a well respected International Lawyer by the name of Emer DeVattel who invented the LEGAL term NATURAL BORN CITIZEN which appears in his world renown publication, Law Of Nations 1758.

Emer DeVattel's, 1758 LAW OF NATIONS was HEAVILY consulted by the Founding Fathers who are the authors of the United States Constitution, as such, here is an excerpt from the Law Of Nations;

"§212. Citizens and natives. -The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens."

Emer DeVattel invented the term NATURAL BORN CITIZEN and this term was afterward adopted and incorporated into the Constitution by the Founding Fathers, there is NO mystery here. There will be many politicians and so-called lawyers that will attempt to bring this to SCOTUS to have them interpret the meaning of Natural-Born Citizen even though the legal definition already exists as per how the Founding Fathers understood what it meant when they wrote the Constitution.

These corrupt lawyers and politicians will attempt to use SCOTUS to reconstruct or determine a new definition for Natural-Born Citizen. The fact remains that Emer DeVattel invented the LEGAL term NATURAL-BORN CITIZEN and has already defined it 262 years ago. Precedence and authority of the legal term Natural-Born Citizen must favor the author on the subject matter as the definition appears in Law Of Nations.

[–] SuckaFree ago  (edited ago)

So, there seems to be some confusion. Here's the rules:

"be a natural-born U.S. citizen of the United States;

be at least 35 years old;

be a resident in the United States for at least 14 years."

And here's the definition on "natural born citizen:

The natural-born-citizen clause has been mentioned in passing in several decisions of the United States Supreme Court, and by some lower courts that have addressed eligibility challenges, but the Supreme Court has never directly addressed the question of a specific presidential or vice-presidential candidate's eligibility as a natural-born citizen. Many eligibility lawsuits from the 2008, 2012, and 2016 election cycles were dismissed in lower courts due to the challengers' difficulty in showing that they had standing to raise legal objections. Additionally, some experts have suggested that the precise meaning of the natural-born-citizen clause may never be decided by the courts because, in the end, presidential eligibility may be determined to be a non-justiciable political question that can be decided only by Congress rather than by the judicial branch of government."

Pulled from Wikipedia, and I verified it looking at the Constitution.

Those that said I need to do some research need to do some of your own.

Edit: And since this is a matter of Congress, don't expect any of this to change anytime soon.

Edit #2: Here's the info you knuckleheads have misinterpreted as law. It goes back to '12, and earlier really, but clearly states what an Appellate Court's position is. And since it hasn't been argued before the SCOTUS, it's the law of the Land:

"In a 2012 New York case, Strunk v. N.Y. State Board of Elections,[4] the pro se plaintiff challenged Barack Obama's presence on the presidential ballot, based on his own interpretation that "natural born citizen" required the president "to have been born on United States soil and have two United States born parents" (emphasis added). To this the Court responded, "Article II, section 1, clause 5 does not state this. No legal authority has ever stated that the Natural Born Citizen clause means what plaintiff Strunk claims it says. ... Moreover, President Obama is the sixth U.S. President to have had one or both of his parents not born on U.S. soil". The opinion then listed Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan, Chester A. Arthur, Woodrow Wilson, and Herbert Hoover."

So, see? Obama wasn't the only President with this question hanging over his head. And he won't be the last, either.

[–] JohnQ-Arkenstone ago 

International Lawyer and Law Professor, Emer DeVattel invented the LEGAL term NATURAL-BORN CITIZEN and defined it 262 years ago as a person born of TWO CITIZENS of that nation.

[–] Q20191776 ago  (edited ago)

Just vote for the proper candidates.

Use your own integrity to cast your vote.

Urge others to do so as well.

Edit...

Oh yeah. Vote in person & make sure it counts.

[–] Wwg1wga1972 ago 

At least one. But yes, you are correct. she is technically ineligible.No one will touch the subject with a ten foot pole.

[–] Jigsy17 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

So... she’s an anchor baby 🤔

[–] CR302 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

It does...two citizen parents.

[–] crystaliis 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The black community is pretty outspoken that she does not represent them, claiming to be a black American. I don't know, is part Jamaican being black?

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