Maybe she can be president!

Susan Peterson asked for clarification in the comments below about why Brigid cannot grow up to be president. I was working off of my 8th grade knowledge of the Constitutional requirements, and I seem to remember (from 8th grade, mind you), that even with both parents American citizens, a foreign-born person could not be president. I seem to remember that this is why it was so important that children of US military stationed overseas be born in on-base American hospitals.

However, in looking up the actual law, I saw that the Constitution was vague on defining preceisely natural-born US citizen, and then looked to the US Code of Law. According to the linked section, Brigid is still a natural-born citizen, specifically

(c) a person born outside of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents both of whom are citizens of the United States and one of whom has had a residence in the United States or one of its outlying possessions, prior to the birth of such person;

This is the same section that applied to Mitt Romney's father, George Romney, when he ran for president in 1968. The senior Romney had been born in Mexico.

So, Brigid, born on Election Day 2008, it appears that you, too, can be President of the United States.

Comments

The Girl said…
We don't have a military hospital here in our neck of Germany... the closest one is about 4 hours away. Imagine being in labor and undertaking that drive!!!
Sarah said…
My friend's son was born on Election Day 2000. She went into the hospital that evening and when her parents showed up that night, she asked, "Who won?" They replied, "Don't ask!" Then the family joke was that they should've named their son Chad. Heh.

Congrats!!!