[edge919]

The Supreme Court explains it pretty well. Not sure why you’re having such a hard time understanding:

“Passing by questions once earnestly controverted, but finally put at rest by the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, it is beyond doubt that, before the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 or the adoption of the Constitutional [p675] Amendment, all white persons, at least, born within the sovereignty of the United States, whether children of citizens or of foreigners, excepting only children of ambassadors or public ministers of a foreign government, were native-born citizens of the United States.”

[PugetSoundSoldier]

That can’t be! We’ve been told in no uncertain terms by the birthers here that Obama cannot be a Natural Born Citizen because his father was a British subject! And that you had to be born to two citizen parents AND on US soil regardless of what the original citizenship act of the Founders said...;)

Thanks for the quote, I’d love to keep that as a link; do you have it?

[allmendream]

But where does it specify that native born is in any way different than natural born? As I said, the two terms seem to be used interchangeably, just as “citizen” and “subject” get interposed when in Wong Kim Ark they spoke of a child born of foreign national subjects in U.S. territory as a “natural born subject”.