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Originally posted by VirginiaR:
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Originally posted by Marcus Rowland:
[b] Interesting idea, but of course she'd never be able to run for President. Knowing Lois, that would end up annoying her.
If Sam and/or Ellen were US citizens she could still have US citizenship, and therefore be qualified to be president, even if she never had lived here. I doubt Lois would want to be president, though. I see her as knowledge hungry, more than power hungry. [/b]
Yup, per the 1790 Naturalization Act, ANY child born of two United States citizens (or a United States citizen and anyone from the US territory like Puerto Rico) and has lived on US soil for at least a year is automatically a natural born citizen. There is also a later change that pretty much defines Barack Obama as a citizen regardless of the "birther"s statements as he was both born of at least one US citizen (unless they're somehow claiming that his MOTHER revoked her citizenship before he was born).

CLARK: No. I'm just worried I'm a jinx.
JONATHAN: A jinx?
CLARK: Yeah. Let's face it, ever since she's known me, Lois's been kidnapped, frozen, pushed off buildings, almost stabbed, poisoned, buried alive and who knows what else, and it's all because of me.
-"Contact" (You're not her jinx, you're her blessing.)