natural born citizen

Examples of natural born citizen in the following topics:

• Eligibility

  • The President of the U.S. must be a natural-born citizen, due to the natural-born citizenship clause of the U.S.
  • There has been some legal debate over what constitutes natural born citizenship, particularly regarding cases where an individual is born outside the U.S. to American citizens or in cases of adoption.
  • Generally, however, natural born citizenship is understood to include anyone who is entitled to U.S. citizenship at birth, even if they are born outside of the U.S.
  • Over the years, multiple presidential candidates have been born in foreign countries or U.S. territories, but have met the natural born citizenship eligibility requirement because they were born to American citizens.
  • Constitution limits eligibility for the office of president to individuals who are natural born citizens of the U.S.

• The Civil War Amendments

  • ., many citizens were concerned that the rights granted by war-time legislation would be overturned.
  • The three amendments prohibited slavery, granted citizenship rights to all people born or naturalized in the U.S. regardless of race, and prohibited governments from infringing on voting rights based on race or past servitude.
  • The first clause asserted that anyone born or naturalized in the U.S. is a citizen of the U.S. and of the state in which they live.
  • This amendment prohibited governments from denying U.S. citizens the right to vote based on race, color, or past servitude .
  • While the amendment provided legal protection for voting rights based on race there were other means that could be used to block Black citizens from voting.

• The 14th Amendment

  • All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
  • No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
  • But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

• John Locke

  • Locke was born in 1632 in Wrington, Somerset, about 12 miles from Bristol and grew up in the nearby town of Pensford.
  • Unlike Hobbes, Locke believed that human nature is characterized by reason and tolerance.
  • Rather, he believed a legitimate contract could easily exist between citizens and a monarchy, an oligarchy, or in some mixed form.
  • He defines the state of nature as a condition, in which humans are rational and follow natural law and in which all men are born equal with the right to life, liberty and property.
  • However, when one citizen breaks the Law of Nature, both the transgressor and the victim enter into a state of war, from which it is virtually impossible to break free.

• Citizenship Rights

  • In the United States, citizens have certain rights and responsibilities, as defined in the U.S.
  • In the United States, citizens have certain rights and responsibilities, as defined in the U.S.
  • Many people are presumed to be citizens of a nation if they were born within the physical geographic territory of the nation.
  • Citizenship can also be obtained by marrying a citizen, which is termed jure matrimonii.
  • New citizens are welcomed during a naturalization ceremony in Salem, MA.

• Early Roman Society

  • Free-born foreign subjects during this period were known as peregrini and special laws existed to govern their conduct and disputes, though they were not considered Roman citizens during the Roman kingdom period.
  • Free-born women in ancient Rome were considered citizens, but they could not vote or hold political office.
  • Additionally, the phrase ex duobus civibus Romanis natos, translated to mean “children born of two Roman citizens”, reinforces the importance of both parents’ legal status in determining that of their offspring.
  • Slaves who had been manumitted became freedmen and enjoyed largely the same rights and protections as free-born citizens.
  • Some slave owners also freed slaves who they believed to be their natural children.

• Illegal Immigration

  • Unauthorized immigration is when a non-citizen has entered the country without government permission and in violation of the law.
  • -born children of unauthorized immigrant parents resided in this country in 2009.
  • These infants are, according to the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, American citizens from birth.
  • The majority of children that are born with illegal parents fail to graduate high school, averaging two fewer years of school than their peers.
  • Describe the nature and scope of illegal immigration in the United States

• Global Aging

  • The people who were born during a population surge in the 1950s–1960s are beginning to reach old age, draining the country's Medicare and social security reserves as they claim their benefits.
  • Citizens living in wealthier, more developed countries or regions tend to have higher life expectancies.
  • This strain is occurring in the United States, where people born into the baby boomer generation of the 1950s–1960s are aging and reaching retirement age, thus tapping into Medicaid and social security funds at unprecedented rates.
  • This naturally leads to fewer childbirths.
  • More developed countries have older populations because their citizens live longer.

• Nativism

  • As German and Irish immigrants poured into the United States in the decades preceding the Civil War, native-born laborers also found themselves competing for jobs with new arrivals who were more likely to work longer hours for less pay.
  • The anti-Catholic Know-Nothings wanted to extend the amount of time it took immigrants to become citizens and voters; they also wanted to prevent foreign-born people from ever holding public office.
  • The Nativists went public in 1854 when they formed the American Party, which was especially hostile to the immigration of Irish Catholics and campaigned for laws to require longer wait time between immigration and naturalization.
  • The Know-Nothing Party's platform included the repeal of all naturalization laws and a prohibition against immigrants holding public office.

• The Reconstruction Amendments

  • The 14th Amendment provided the foundation of equal rights for all U.S. citizens, including African-Americans.
  • The 14th Amendment was proposed in 1866 and ratified in 1868, guaranteeing United States citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and granting them federal civil rights.
  • Sandford ruling that blacks could not be citizens of the United States.
  • The Civil Rights Act of 1866 had previously granted U.S. citizenship to all persons born in the United States.
  • The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."