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Rogers v. Bellei (1971) - a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that a person born outside of the U.S. to one parent who is an American citizen, and one who is not, obtains citizenship only if a residency requirement is fulfilled.

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* [[John McCain]] ran for President as the Republican nominee in 2008, even though he was born in the Panama Canal Zone.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/us/politics/28mccain.html?_r=0|title=McCain’s Canal Zone Birth Prompts Queries About Whether That Rules Him Out|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=February 28, 2008|accessdate=August 11, 2014|first=Carl|last=Hulse}}</ref>

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== See also ==

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*''Rogers v. Bellei'' (1971) - a [[U.S. Supreme Court]] ruling that a person born outside of the [[U.S.]] to one parent who is an American citizen, and one who is not, obtains citizenship only if a residency requirement is fulfilled.

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