That is where Obama fails to meet the requirements. He and the DNC have already admitted that he was subject to the British Nationality Act of 1948 at birth via his non-citizen father.
That is where Obama fails to meet the requirements. He and the DNC have already admitted that he was subject to the British Nationality Act of 1948 at birth via his non-citizen father.
That was the very first wording they came up with, and they improved it over time.
The reason why they changed to "subject to the jurisdiction of the United States" does not seem to be recorded, but they obviously had some reason.
The obvious reason is that most likely somebody raised the point that the original wording sounded like it excluded immigrants. And that was NEVER the intention, not from the very moment it was introduced on the Senate floor.
In fact, it was only MINUTES after introducing that EXACT wording that you've just quoted, that Trumbull clarified that IT DID NOT EXCLUDE CHILDREN BORN ON US SOIL OF NON-CITIZEN PARENTS FROM BEING BORN CITIZENS.
Any foreign nation can declare that anybody, born anywhere, is a citizen. Any such declaration is completely and absolutely irrelevant to whether a person is, under our laws, a natural born citizen of the United States.