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Well...

Perhaps the term “truckloads” was inaccurate. Regardless, it remains true that Amazon had too many for me to buy them all, so I settled on two for my library.

I posted a few links for you because you couldn’t seem to find any on your own. It just so happened that the ones I picked out ran from the late 1800’s to the 40’s. I disagree that this is a problem, especially since one of those textbooks (Advanced Civics; The Spirit, the Form, and the Functions of the American Government) is still in print, and I assume in use, today. I bought the 19-0-something edition because that one struck my fancy.

Why would textbooks from the 1800’s through the 40’s be less valid anyway?

Now, back to the question...

It is entirely possible that some folks were told in school that an NBC required two citizen parents. Just as some were told that the 2nd Amendment only applied to State militias and the 1st amendment was all about the separation of church and state. Or that ‘Separate but equal’ was just dandy. They may have even had a civics text that said so.

But as I stated in my post that set this off:

“If this were actually the case, it should then be a relatively simple matter to produce a civics textbook from the era with this information.

Yet I understand that no one has been able to do this.”

I stand by that statement.

I was able to find plenty of links to civics textbooks without your help, just none that would have been used during the time that I went to school. You didn't post a link to a book from the “40’s” the latest copyright on the books you posted was 1936. Once again you are exagerating. The whole point of your post was to discredit my statement and those of many others here that we were taught in school that a Natural Born Citizen was born in the country with parents who were citizens of the United States.

“Why would textbooks from the 1800’s through the 40’s be less valid anyway?”

Cherry picking books from antiquity has nothing to do with what I was taught in school. You took this challenge on yourself when you said that there were “truckloads” available on Amazon and “it should then be a relatively simple matter to produce a civics textbook from the era”. It is not quite as easy as you thought is it?

So for the sake of argument... if Osama Bin Laden had taken an underage American wife and had a child that was born in this country and then took the child back to Pakistan to be indoctrinated to hate America... in your opinion is that child constitutionally eligible to be president? If so... what safeguard do you think the framers were trying to take by specifying that the president must be a natural born citizen?