Talk:George W. Romney
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How can Romney run for the Republican nomination for president in 1968 if he was born in Mexico? --Lst27
If one of the parents are U.S. citizens, the child can claim U.S. citizenship, no matter where the birth occurs. Bkonrad | Talk 19:51, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)
The entry for natural-born citizen shows that citizens by birthright are eligible. Those born in the U.S. and those born to U.S. citizens can be President; naturalized citizens and non-citizens are excluded. Ubermonkey 18:04, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
There is a list of references at the bottom, but this page does not conform to the standard sourcing of Wikipedia. This needs to be corrected. 68.227.248.58 04:53, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
Shouldn't his lieutenant governor, Thaddeus John Lesinski, be mentioned in this article? One interesting fact about him is that he was a democrat and defeated Romney's running mate. tjl82090 | talk
This is an informative piece. I have one criticism: The reference to "The Manchurian Candidate" isn't really a propos. The film was about brainwashing in the Korean War, not the Vietnamese. Besides, the film was, as I understand it, taken out of distribution with the assassination of JFK. Not many Americans had seen it until its reissue, in 1987, I believe. I don't think many people would have associated Romney's "brainwashing" with the film. jp
[edit] George Romney never marched with MLK
I've made a post similar to this one over at Talk:John Swainson. This news article from 1963 [1] describes George Romney declining the invitation to accompany Martin Luther King on the "Walk for Freedom." Romney declined because, as a Mormon, he did not wish to walk on a Sunday. That was the reason as reported at the time by the NY Times, as repeated here: [2]. So I'm going to edit the George Romney article to reflect the fact that Mitt Romney is wrong on this point about his father. Qworty (talk) 02:02, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
- That makes no sense. Putting criticism of Mitt Romney in this page which is not about him? Arzel (talk) 03:53, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Does the fact that hes born in Mexico make him a "Mexican-American"?
"Romney was born in Colonia Dublán, Galeana, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua to Gaskell Romney (1871-1955), an American of English ancestry, and wife Anna Amelia Pratt (1876-1926), born to a New England and Scottish father and a German mother."
I thought this was only acceptable (atleast in America) if you are ethnically Mexican. If Mother Theresa who was born in the Republic of Macedonia) came to the US, she herself and I believe most Americans would consider her Albanian-American not Macedonian-American (because she was born in Skopje, Macedonia), or Indian-American (because that's where she was a missionary). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.121.247.116 (talk) 20:31, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
- I agree. "Mexican-American" implies ethnicity to most readers, and Romney was not ethnically Mexican in any way. I have changed the wording and added a sentence in the Intro explaining the location of his birth. --BlueMoonlet (t/c) 16:58, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
How is one "ethnically Mexican"? If you are dancing around the term mestizo, then you are wrong. There are a lot of Mexicans that are not mestizo and are still, in fact, Mexican. If he was born on Mexican soil, he is then, by Mexican law, a Mexican (Title I, Chapter II, Article 30 of the Mexican constitution, states that "Mexican nationality is acquired by birth or by naturalization. A. Mexicans by birth are: I. Those who are born in the territory of the Republic, regardless of the nationality of the parents"). Now, he may have had dual citizenship because he was the child of citizens. One could then argue that his parents, in fleeing the country because of the federal government's opposition to polygamy, were defecting (but one would have to see the U.S. Law at the period of his parents exit to Mexico). Also, Mexican citizenship is perpetual (Title I, Chapter IV, Article 37, Section A); therefore, even if he is a U.S. Citizen, he is a Mexican. Even if you look to the Constitution of 1857, which was the one current during his period in Mexico, he is a Mexican according to Mexican law (Title I, Section II, Article 30, Subsection I); however, what I'm more curious about is whether his parents bought property in Mexico or not. If they bought property in Mexico, this transaction was indication of a desire to become a naturalized Mexican citizen--because according to Title I, Section II, Article 30, Subsection III of the Mexican constitution of 1857, foreigners buying real estate in Mexico are Mexicans. (Now, one would have to analyze what provisions were in place at the time for foreigners to buy real estate in Mexican territory. Today, this is not possible.) So, in my opinion, he is Mexican-American or a Mexican-born American. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.147.241.133 (talk) 15:00, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
