Talk:Native-born citizen

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[edit] Native-born citizen vs Natural-born citizen

The article named "natural-born citizen" was renamed to "native-born citizen" (and redirected). This is incorrect. A person born outside the country to citizen parent(s) may be a natural-born citizen for purposes of US presidential eligibility (ex. John McCain, etc). However, such a person would not be a native-born citizen. Therefore, I have split the two articles. The natural-born citizen article is restored and the native-born citizen article was re-written anew.

[edit] Is this an "American" article?

This article is placed under a number of America-related categories; is it thus strictly about the American interpretation of "native-born citizen"? Does the legal concept exist in other countries? (There are no articles on this topic in other languages.) If it is in fact limited to America, then the information on other countries (in general or specific) are irrelevant and don't belong, and the descriptions of the concept ought to be worded with direct reference to the U.S. rather than the general "that country".

If the article is not just about America, then the content is fine as is, but it doesn't belong in the American categories. -- Paul Richter (talk) 04:47, 29 February 2008 (UTC)