[mlo]

"That of course defies logic, in that if that were so, then there was no cause for the term "natural born" to have been used by Madison in the requirements to be president. He could merely have said citizen."

You do understand that some citizens are not citizens at birth, right? There is this thing called "naturalization", where citizenship is granted to immigrants and such.

So use requiring a president be a "natural born citizen" means that he can't be a naturalized one. Did that really never occur to you?

[editor-surveyor]

Read the Federalist papers wherein Madison and Jay discuss this very issue, and present the definition in plain English.

Damn you’re thick headed!