# How many more?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-more/105203>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 23, 2002, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-more/105203 "2002-04-23T20:30:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cleric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@Cleric](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleric)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-more/105203/1 "2002-04-23T20:30:25Z")

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I was reading the constitution of the USA, and it says that only natural born citizens can become president. I was thinking if there was any other differences between a natural born citizen versus and Naturalized one.

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**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-more/105203/2 "2002-04-23T20:33:22Z")

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None, that I’m aware of.

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**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-more/105203/3 "2002-04-23T21:01:22Z")

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Given the 14th Amendment, it might be unconsitutional to make any other distinction between classes of citizens. Heck, one might even argue that the 14th Amendment repealed that provision of the Constitution _sub silentio_\*, but it’d be a tough sell.

–Cliffy

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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-more/105203/4 "2002-04-24T02:17:55Z")

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I started to type:

Naturalized citizens can have their citizen revoked. If you are _only_ a US citizen, natural born, and haven’t fought in foreign armies, etc., you’re citizenship can’t be revoked.

But then, I felt I was splitting hairs. I guess the distinction is in for _which_ reasons you can get you’re citizenship revoked.

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**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-more/105203/5 "2002-04-24T11:10:59Z")

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> _Originally posted by ftg \*  
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> Naturalized citizens can have their citizen revoked._\*

According to a friend of mine, who used to work for the United States Information Services, you can never lose your citizenship once you’ve got it.

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**Author:** ![sirjamesp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@sirjamesp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirjamesp)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-more/105203/6 "2002-04-24T11:19:17Z")

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Some hack named Cecil dealt with this - though indirectly - in [this](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/020308.html) column.