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<blockquote data-quote="trplnkl" data-source="post: 832115" data-attributes="member: 13254">Now that you&#039;ve brought up, yes legally that could make him less than a natural born citizen.OK, this is gonna sound like I am saying 0 isn&#039;t a natural born citizen, that isn&#039;t what I am trying to do. What I am trying to do is point out that the list of 6 previous presidents with foreign born parents may be an apples vs. oranges comparison. Without knowing the citizenship status of these foreign born parents it is hard to tell if their children were legal to be president. I haven&#039;t been able to find proof one way or the other. The difference is not as much where the parent was born but where their citizenship was. If, for example, the foreign born parents had been naturalized citizens then their offspring are natural born citizens of the USA. From what I can tell, to be a natural born citizen, both parents must be citizens of the USA. If there were ever any challenges of the first 6 presidents natural born status, I haven&#039;t been able to find them. That doesn&#039;t mean it didn&#039;t happen nor what the outcome was.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="trplnkl, post: 832115, member: 13254"] [COLOR=sienna][I][B]Now that you've brought up, yes legally that could make him less than a natural born citizen[/B][/I][/COLOR]. [COLOR=sienna][I][B]OK, this is gonna sound like I am saying 0 isn't a natural born citizen, that isn't what I am trying to do. What I am trying to do is point out that the list of 6 previous presidents with foreign born parents may be an apples vs. oranges comparison. Without knowing the citizenship status of these foreign born parents it is hard to tell if their children were legal to be president. I haven't been able to find proof one way or the other. The difference is not as much where the parent was born but where their citizenship was. If, for example, the foreign born parents had been naturalized citizens then their offspring are natural born citizens of the USA. From what I can tell, to be a natural born citizen, both parents must be citizens of the USA. If there were ever any challenges of the first 6 presidents natural born status, I haven't been able to find them. That doesn't mean it didn't happen nor what the outcome was.[/B][/I] [I][B][/B][/I] [I][B][/B][/I][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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