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 Executive Branch

  • Official photographic portrait of US President Barack Obama (born 4 August 1961; assumed office 20 January 2009).

• Article II

  • No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.

• Presidential Candidates

  • The 2010 Supreme Court decision in the case of Citizens United v.
  • Constitution requires that candidates are natural-born U.S. citizens who are at least 35 years old at the time of election.

• 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.

• 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

• Non-Democratic Governments: Monarchy, Oligarchy, Technocracy, and Theocracy

  • Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, privately owned Russia-based multinational corporations, including producers of petroleum, natural gas, and metal have, in the view of some analysts, become oligarchs.
  • Monarchy is associated with political or sociocultural hereditary rule; most monarchs, both historically and in the modern day, have been born and brought up within a royal family and trained for future duties.
  • Aristocracy is a form of government in which a few elite citizens rule.
  • In the origins in Ancient Greece, it was conceived of as rule by the best qualified citizens, and contrasted with monarchy.

• Latinos

  • On average, Latino citizens continue to vote at significantly lower rates than non-Latino white voters.
  • However, recently naturalized citizens from South and Central America, and their children, make up the largest group of Latino voters in the US.
  • On average Latino citizens continue to vote at significantly lower rates that non-Latino white voters.
  • The US has comparatively low rates of naturalization for immigrant residents.
  • Additionally, the weaker electoral institutions in the US, including more decentralized election processes and a weaker party system, mean that there are few institutions working to actively incorporate newly naturalized citizens or second generation citizens into the voting process.

• Democracy

  • Democracy is a form of government in which all eligible citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives.
  • Democracy is a form of government in which all eligible citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives.
  • All citizens were eligible to speak and vote in the assembly, which set the laws of the city-state.
  • Although not explicitly described as a democracy by the founding fathers, the United States founders also shared a determination to root the American experiment in the principle of natural freedom and equality.
  • Some modern democracies that are predominately representative in nature also heavily rely upon forms of political action that are directly democratic.