[Kaslin]

Why should Chester Arthur not have been president? He was born on October 5, 1829, in North Fairfield, Vermont. To my knowledge Vermont is a US State

[Duchess47]

At the time of his birth one parent was not an American citizen. Also there was doubt that he himself was born in the US and not Canada.

[kabar]

I provided a post to you on the controversy surrounding Arthur. Some claimed he was not eligible due to the fact that his father was not a US citizen when Arthur was born. This controversy was in 1880 about 100 years after the Constitution was written.

As the Senate Resolution on McCain says"

Whereas the term "natural born Citizen", as that term appears in Article II, Section 1, is not defined in the Constitution of the United States;

The issue has never beem adjudicated.