So if a child is born on American soil to an American parent and a foreign parent (as my children are) then these children are ineligible to serve as president and are thus categorized as second-class citizens?
So I can serve as President but my California-born children cannot because their mother is a legal Ukrainian immigrant? If my children cannont aspire to the presidency as their father can, then my children are second-class citizens.
That's a crock and everyone knows it. We do not have second-class citizens in this country. No court will, in this day and age, designate millions of American-born citizens as second-class on the basis of the allegiance of their parents.
Again, you people are making stuff up.
Is your wife a naturalized citizen?
If so, yes your kids can serve as President.
“If my children cannont aspire to the presidency as their father can, then my children are second-class citizens.”
I reject the notion that denying children one little, tiny opportunity makes them second class citizens. Of course, any law that defines people different divides people into different classes, in a technical sense. For instance, marriage law makes married people a seperate class from single people. Children are a seperate class from adults.
It is so unlikely that any particular child will ever be elected president that restricting them from doing so almost certainly won’t make a difference in their lives.
That's the kind of mantra that lefties are prone to use to obfuscate the Constitutional issue in the Obama matter.
We do have different classes of citizens only in so far as it relates to qualifications for the presidency (or vice presidency). To be president, you need not only be a citizen, but a "natural born citizen."
However, there is debate within the legal community and within the public in general as to what exactly "natural born citizen" means. Most would consider your children under the circumstances you described as "natural born citizens," constitutionally eligible to be president once they meet the other requirements. But while Philip Berg and some of the other plaintiffs in these suits would probably agree with that, Leo Donofrio might not.