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You can’t be born out of the country and run for president, how did that work
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- Brian Lamb : You know, in looking at your father’s past, the first question that came to mind when I found out -- I guess he was born in Chihuahua, in Mexico?
- Brian Lamb : You can’t be born out of the country and run for president, how did that work?
- Governor Mitt Romney: Well, actually, the Constitution says that only a natural born United States citizen may become president of the United States. And so he had that researched very carefully and concluded that because his parents were American citizens living outside the United States at the time in Mexico, and that he required no naturalization to become a citizen because his parents were citizens, that he in fact was a natural born American citizen, and therefore could run for president. So that didn’t do him in.
- Governor Mitt Romney: No, it was never challenged. And part of it I think it was because it was pretty well-settled that given the fact he had never been naturalized, never had a visa or anything of that nature, no green card, he came in as a -- into life as a United States citizen, being born to U.S. citizens, that that was not a question.
C-SPAN BRIAN LAMB
You can’t be born out of the country and run for president, how did that work
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