Hawk, that’s bunk.
The Founders made a distinction between the requirements for senators and representatives (citizens) and president and vice-president (natural born citizen). They did this for a very distinct and important reason—to prevent someone with dual or duplicitous loyalties from assuming the office of president.
If you or anyone else doesn’t like the Constitution, convene a convention and change it (which would be a very, very bad idea). It says what it says, and natural born citizen means the same thing now as it did when the Founders wrote it in our Constitution, regardless of how many people choose to ignore, deny or pervert its meaning.
No. It’s not bunk. Not one constitutional scholar or lawyer subscribes to that definition. In fact, no one outside the birther movement believes that definition.
Let’s list the types of citizens:
1. Natural-born.
2. Naturalized.
3. ???
Please help complete the list, and let me know where the third one is found in the Constitution.