A NBC is a person that is born on American soil to parents that are U.S. citizens.
Wrong. This tells you who is a citizen at birth (natural born citizen):
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/8/1401.html. There is no definition of “natural born” in the Constitution, so you are in error when you assume the parents had to be citizens. In fact, under English common law, which was what was in use in the colonies, the place of birth ALONE determined citizenship. We didn’t adopt a new system. We simply continued doing what we had done before independence, under England.
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Wrong. This is unsettled SCOTUS law related to the Constitutional provision for the POTUS and VPOTUS specifically. The Supremes have hinted at this provision on many occasions.
Elg V Perkins
From Minor v. Happersett:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=88&invol=162
“The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, 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. Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first. For the purposes of this case it is not necessary to solve these doubts.”
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Will the SCOTUS clear up this mystery? I’m leaning toward no. If zero were born in Kenya, and we could somehow prove that definitively, it may still not usher him from office. We must battle this on all other grounds.