Two citizen parents and born on US soil. Or put another way, to be a natural born citizen; one must have 2 parents who, at the time of the birth in question, are citizens of the United States. Obama's own evidence proves he was born a dual national US/UK, so he fails constitutional eligibility and is therefore ineligible to serve as President.
Minor Court’s Definition of Natural Born Citizen Under Article II2
The United States Supreme Court defined the term “natural born citizen” in Minor v. Happersett. 88 U.S. at 167. The Minor Court established that “it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.”
It is clear that the Minor Court was referring to the term “natural born citizen,” as it appears in article II of the Constitution because, in the paragraph preceding the definition quoted here, that Court quoted the article II requirement that the President must be a “natural born citizen.”
The Minor Court definition of natural born citizen is immediately followed by a statement that “there have been doubts” about the broader class of people identified as “citizens.” However, this statement is immediately followed by the clarification that there have “never been doubts” as to the narrower class of natural born citizens.
This understanding of the Minor Court statement is supported by its extensive discussion of the broader term “citizen” at the beginning of the Court's opinion. The Court concludes its discussion of the term citizen by stating, “When used in this sense it is understood as conveying the idea of membership of a nation, and nothing more.”
The Court, therefore, clearly established that the term “citizen” in its opinion was to be understood to be very broad. Nothing in this opinion should be read as an attempt to independently construe the United States Constitution.
To the contrary, this section and the following section of this opinion are intended to show that this Court is simply applying the construction established by United States Supreme Court precedent.
Court's statement is unambiguous: it established two distinct classes of people, citizens and natural born citizens; “citizen” is a broad term that is inclusive of all “natural born citizens”; as to the outer limits of the term “citizen” there are doubts; and as to the definition of “natural born citizen” there have “never been doubts”.
The Minor Court's definition of the term natural born citizen uses the term “parents.” This is the plural form of the term “parent.” Had the Court intended to indicate natural born citizen status could be conferred upon an individual with one citizen parent, the Court could have used the term “parent” instead of “parents.” The Court could also have identified a specific parent using the terms “father” or “mother.” It did not use the terms “mother,” “father,” or “parent.” Instead it chose to use the plural term “parents.” The plain language meaning of this term indicates a requirement for both parents to be citizens.
It contains INCLUSIVE language, and excludes NOBODY, does it?
Yes, such people are NBC’s but it does not say that those WITHOUT two citizen parents are NOT Natural Born if born on US Soil.