“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
This article makes a nice legal argument, but I think that the 14th amendment, cited above, will prevail in court. It’s a bit strained to argue that a person who is a citizen because they were born in the USA and subject to its jurisdiction, is not a “natural born citizen”. This interpretation would also exclude any child who had one immigrant parent who had not yet become a US citizen; and no US court will declare that.
You’ve missed the real gist of this argument.
His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, married Lolo Soetoro and took little Barry and a new baby girl with them when they all moved to Indonesia. When Barry Soetoro entered school, he was registered not only as a Muslim but as Indonesian.
Indonesia does not recognize mixed religous marriages. Stanley Ann had to convert to Islam. Then there is a question over whether she renounced her U.S. citizenship (she lived and worked in Indonesia for years - preferring it over the U.S.). Was Barry adopted by Lolo Soetoro and therefore given Indonesian citizenship?
Allegience to the United States is an important factor. A person who has had dual citizenship or changed citizenship to another nation, then back again, has questionable allegience to this nation. That is why naturalized citizens are ineligible to run for the Presidency.
The requested BC may just be a red herring, or not. But Senator Obama has some explaining to do over whether he has dual or even triple (Kenya claims him as one of their own) citizenships.