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To: chaosagent
For the record, for newbies who are lurking on this thread, THIS is the commonly-accepted definition of
Natural Born Citizen, from the same book that was the FIRST book purchased for the US Senate, in
1793 -- the Law of Nations:

Natural-Born Citizen - definition

101 posted on 06/16/2009 9:58:04 PM PDT by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: BP2
"The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens."

This is exactly what I was taught in high school, and that no one but a natural-born citizen, as defined above, could be President.

The Law of Nations*, Emmerich de Vattel

* Available at Amazon.com.
The Law of Nations

103 posted on 06/16/2009 10:21:53 PM PDT by thecodont
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