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Incorrect, unless you're suggesting that non-citizen biological fathers have no rights in the U.S. Obama was born a Brit and therefore did not owe sole allegiance to the U.S. at birth. Obama is not a natural born citizen.
What rights of Obama senior would have been negated?
And again, while I'm sure you think your OPINION is the final word, you have no foundation for the OPINION that Obama's dual citizenship would somehoe negate his natural-born citizenship status. You don't have a law or a single case ruling for YOUR opinion. None of the birthers does. Which is part of the reason why none of their lawsuits have progressed. There's no legal foundation for their argument. It's all wishful thinking.
Incorrect. Read the British Nationality Act of 1948. There are some cases in which someone has to 'claim' British citizenship to have it. Obama is not one of them. He was born a Brit because his father was a Brit at the time of his birth.
And still it doesn't matter to the United States. It matters to Great Britain. It doesn't matter to the United States. The U.S. Government doesn't care what Great Britain does. Obama was born on US soil to an American mother. That makes him an AMERICAN citizen as far as AMERICAN laws are concerned. You have no AMERICAN laws that preclude natural-born status because one parent wasn't an AMERICAN. Don't offer up the Jay letter. It's irrelevant. What is relevant is the law as it was written in 2008. And you have no legal foundation for your argument. None.
They haven't been. That's what makes Obama a born Brit, and not a natural born American citizen.
Because you say so?
And what authority do you have to make this assertion. Oh, that's right, none. You don't have any authority. You don't have any legal standing. You don't have any legal precedent. You don't have any law to reference. You don't have anything. You have nothing.
Incorrect. Read the British Nationality Act of 1948. There are some cases in which someone has to 'claim' British citizenship to have it. Obama is not one of them. He was born a Brit because his father was a Brit at the time of his birth.
The British Nationality Act is irrelevant to American citizenship. The United States is a sovereign nation. No other nation gets to tell us who is or is not a natural born US citizen under our law.
That said... even under the BNA, Obama absolutely would have to claim his British Citizenship for it to be in effect, since all jus sanguinis citizenships require an affirmative act to demonstrate one deserves the status. This is true 100% of the time for every nation that grants it. Even the US.
And what authority do you have to make this assertion. Oh, that's right, none. You don't have any authority. You don't have any legal standing. You don't have any legal precedent. You don't have any law to reference. You don't have anything. You have nothing.
Obama actually has legal precedent if this were to ever get to a courtroom. Because previous Presidents have had similar situations where one of their parents was not an American citizen. If those Presidents served without challenge, then there was a presumption when they served that they were natural-born citizens despite their parents not BOTH being American citizens. That presumption would be legal precedent in any court hearing today, because the court today would be asked to define what a natural-born citizen is, and the only time natural-born citizenship is an issue is in regards to the Presidency. The historical record of how that status has been defined would have to examine previous Presidents and their birth situations. The court could not now arbitrarily re-define natural-born citizenship in such a way as to declare past Presidencies as illegitimate because so doing would put into question any treaties or agreements those Presidents entered into, or any laws that were signed into effect by those Presidents.
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