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Originally Posted by Bowas
Question: Can a child of a diplomat become president?
If a child is born to foriegn diplomats here in the US does that make them naturally born citizens and eligable to become president?
Answer: No
Neither of the child's parents are US Citizens. A Diplomatic Passport does not automatically confer a right to remain in the US.
Precedent is already available. Just beause a child is born in the USA does not automatically confer to them citizen status.
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This issue was addressed in 1873...which if find to be quite interesting how the Supreme Court rviewed 'subject to jurisdiction'.
The Slaughter-House Cases
In the
Slaughter-House Cases, 83
U.S. 36 (1873) — a civil rights case not dealing specifically with birthright citizenship — a
Supreme Court majority mentioned in passing that
"the phrase 'subject to its jurisdiction' was intended to exclude from its operation children of ministers, consuls, and citizens or subjects of foreign States born within the United States"
Illegal pregnant mothers within the U.S. are "citizens or subjects" of foreign states. Thus, upon giving birth in the U.S.; hence their children are not U.S. citizens. (This is how I interpret their view, yet I'm no legal scholar).
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