Well, there’s the fourteen year residency requirement (although she might be able to meet that by maintaining a residence stateside that she returns to once in a while.
Droll. :rolleyes:
(I hope intentionally so.)
The Constitution, of course, does not mention the First Family; therefore there can be no eligibility tests for a putative First Spouse to pass. Donald America-hating Fuckstick could legally adopt Vladimir Putin as his son, and the Republic would not fall (or be otherwise affected) as a consequence.
No, they don’t. But, they generally have several baptismal names.
Edward VIII was known in the Family as David, one of his baptismal names, but reigned as Edward, another of his baptismal names, after his grandfather, Edward VII
His brother reigned as George VI, one of his baptismal names, to emphasise continuity with his father, George V, who had been a popular monarch. He didn’t use Albert, one of his other baptismal names, possibly because after the trauma of the abdication was no time to be starting a new line of names.
They don’t “eschew” it - George VI’s youngest brother was named John, but died young, probably as a result of epilepsy.
It’s true it’s not been common in the English/British royal family, but names do run in families, while other names don’t.
I enjoyed the portrayal of Princess Michael and friend as an evil pair of wrinkled old crones. Actually I enjoyed the whole thing more than I thought I would. Going soft in my old age
Edited to say I saw it here in the UK the night of the wedding.
Even if she has, she presumably only started to do so when cast in Suits, at which time she was already about 30 years old, and have been living in the US for rather longer than 14 years.
The Constution doesn’t require that you have been a resident of the US for the 14 years immediately before being elected President; just that you have “been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States”. Any 14 years will do.
Japan has the opposite problem. Not enough people in the succession.
After WWII, the US was worried about outside influence on the throne, and Japanese parliament passed the current law governing succession.
All outside branches were abolished, leaving only the Emperor Hirohito, his brothers and their legitimate male progeny.
Female progeny were required to give up royal status and become commoners.
Currently there are only the following:
Order…Name…Date of Birth…Age
Crown Prince Naruhito… 23 February 1960… 58
Fumihito, Prince Akishino… 30 November 1965… 52
Prince Hisahito of Akishino… 6 September 2006… 11
Masahito, Prince Hitachi… 28 November 1935… 82
The Crown Prince has a daughter, Princess Aiko, 16; and Prince Fumihiro has two daughters older than his son, but they are not eligible.
Before Fumihiro has his son, there was talk about changing the laws to allow females to ascent to the throne, but despite the popularity of the option, those were tabled when Hisahito was born.
I used to thing that it would be likely that they would have to allow an empresses, but the people who really care about this are the ones who like tradition. If no male heirs were available, most likely they would go back and grab someone from the currently ineligible families.
There are plenty of articles on this. One of the reasons for the US wanting to eliminate the collateral branches of the Imperial Family was this guy: Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, a general in the IJA and one of the parties responsible for the Nanking massacre, but was not charged as MacArthur elected to not hold members of the Imperial Family responsible for their war crimes.
His former residence is a rather nice art museum in Tokyo, and one I enjoyed visiting a number of times.
There is nothing in US law that prevents a native born US citizen from becoming president while having a second or third citizenship, but the general de facto situation is that they will renounce foreign citizenship. That’s what Ted Cruz did. And not just the US, the Baltic states have all had presidents who were American or Canadian, and all of them (I think) had to renounce.
Their is no restriction on spouses, though I’ll bet the President would be discouraged from oversharing too much.
The Title of Nobility Clause seems to suggest that government officials can’t accept a title without approval but it doesn’t suggest that already titled people can’t enter elected office.
As I understand it: his citizenship having saved him from execution is a Just-So Story. They might’ve considered that it would’ve pissed off the US, they weren’t certain, and it was likely that he was considered small fry at the time. Although the 14th amendment generally granted citizenship, it was still routinely ignored with nonwhite immigrants. And I’m not sure the Irish or Spaniards were quite in the European club at the time. It wasn’t certain until 16 years later.
In other words, if there was indeed a US citizenship to renounce, he doesn’t seem to have made any use of it or had much involvement in the US.
Regarding the story about his not having been shot on account of being an American, I don’t think it’s suggested that he himself raised the issue of his nationality, just that somebody raised it - possibly someone in the British administration, rather than someone advocating for De Valera.
As for “making use” of his citizenship, when he was touring the US to raise funds for The Cause, much was made of his American birth and connections. Whether this was expressed in terms of “citizenship” I can’t say; a focus on that particular legal construct as the badge of True Americanity may be a somewhat later phenomenon. But SFAIK he never made formal use of his citizenship status by applying for a US passport, seeking to enter the US as a citizen, seeking US consular services or even identifying on official documents as as US citizen.
(For dopers not up on the details - De Valera was born in New York city in 1880 to an Irish mother and a Spanish father. He was brought to Ireland at the age of two, and never lived in the US again, though he visited a number of times as an adult.)
For what it’s worth, it’s not clear who Eamon de Valera’s father was. There’s some suspicion that his mother got pregnant outside of marriage, so she made up a story about a Spanish sculptor she was married to who died when Eamon was two or three years old. There’s no records showing that this person ever existed.
I thought it was settled consensus that De Valera Sr was a fiction and he was born out of wedlock? He was born in a hospital for “fallen” women and apparently claiming widowhood was a common tactic then.
About a year ago a US citizen from New York was elected President … of Somalia.
Not sure what Golda Meir’s citizenship status was when she became Prime Minister of Israel. Had been a naturalized US citizen raised in Milwaukee. Israel is quite cool about people retaining joint US-Israeli citizenship.
