Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-08-15
QUESTIONS ANSWERED..

Some readers Of the News are
engaged In controversy regarding
the questions herein contained and
desire ua to answer them. A. they are
often nfked aud correct answers would
be Information Of n general nature, we
chccriuliy complyi
lis child born abroad Of Ameti'
can parents eligible to the presidency
OF the United States?
2-Ia child born OF English pnfent'
on American soil an American citizen
without taking out papors?
3-Can n uaturaliztd citizen become
Vice Pr sidenl7
10 tho frat query We reply-io
unless the parents have permanently
removed from this county or
become naturalize1 by some other.
II was not hlwhys this way,
the doctrine Of "ouce u clu.
z,n always u sutJeop' being upheld;
but with our liberal naturalization
laws such doctrine becomes n piece Of
national qualification and the citizen
can now cxpa,riatc himself aud adopt n
new all,g anee at HE pleasure, In
VIII ch case his onspring In foreign
lands would not belong to this coun.
Try. In the case OF United States
ministers or other agents abroad. nj.
though they reside there during their
terms Of office, such Tcsidenoe Ia only
temporary and for the purposc Of their
government; they are c0nstruoiiyeIy,
however, always on American soil And
their children lose no right or privilege
because Of birth under such circum.
stances. Being therefore "natural
born citizens" such children II other.
wise qualified by sex, years, otc., would
be eligible to the presidency.
("All citizens heretofore born or
hereafter born out Of the limits and
jurisdiction OF the United States whose
fathers were or may DO Mt their birth
citizens thereof, are declared to be
oiuz'ns thereof."-Revlsed Statutes,
rec. 1891
2.-Ncs, u he remains here volun.
tarily anu makes this county his home
continuously III arrival at majority.
Ho would thus become citizen
primarily by the highest litle-ihut OF
birlh-and subsequently, by the law
that we respect more than any mere
onactmont-his own choice. This has
no reference TO children Of foreign
ministers or agents.
S.--No. The Constitution provides
that no person coubtitutlonally ineligi.
bic to the oflice OF President shall DO.
come Vice President.
Something has been said about the
Constitution settling everything. tut
this Il absurd, for In many cases
natural . ,tion partioularly--it dele.
gates to Congress the power 10 rggulai,
the subltct which It and the courts
Jointly have been doing for century
or more. Al-o has there been allusiou
to the case u the late President Ar
thur and Ex-Governor Boyd Of Nebras
ka; question was raised US to the form
er's eligibility because u grOundlesi
rumor that he was born just outside o
Vermont on the Canadian side OF tn,
line, and as to the latter, because o
his lRther's naturalization not having
been complete before he arrived Al
legal maturity. Tho talk IN both casel
was the met,st speculation, caused II
one case by Misunderstanding anu II
the other by mlsconstTuollou; Arthur
father never lived Ia Canaan ant
Boyd's became ciuzsn Of the United
States through being citizen 0
Nebraska when II was admitted into
the Uuiou-A time when naturally
young Boyd must have been vorl
young inIeei, as he is only middle
Hueu NOW