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The answer is basically "Most legal scholars agree it would not matter, however this case has never been taken to court so there is no true precenent."

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Luis Gonzalez, welcome to the forum.

It would probably best to clarify this in law. However, a generic "one US citizen parent makes you eligible for citizen" would arguably result in cases of illegal immigrants getting pregnant by US citizens to avoid deportation.

That already happens. Actually even if BOTH parents are illegal immigrants, any children they have are granted citizenship if born in the US.

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Section C of that also basially answers the question as to someone born outside the US to US citizens.

For the record it wouldn't even matter if Hawaii had attained statehood yet when Obama was born. It was still US territory. McCain was eligible despite not being born in a state, as was Barry Goldwater.

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It's not uncommon for a Constitution to set a requirement, yet legislation which defines that requirement is still needed. The Volstead Act and Prohibition is another example. As the Constitution does not define what a "natural born citizen" is, one needs to look toward legislation and current US citizenship law is quite clear that Obama qualifies.

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What would be wrong with an illegal immigrant's anchor baby being President anyway? Is it impossible for someone born under such circumstances to grow up to be a very productive member of society?