[GregNH]

I agree, but I also see a need to get the definition of NBC settled. We have others who wish or may wish to become POTUS and it is our best interest to try and settle this once and for all, at least for our generation. In 1967 the congress entertained and had entered into the congressional record an argument and definition of NBC because George Romney was considering a run for President. That record indicates that McCain would not be a NBC but implies, even though the specific circumstance of Obama's was not described, that Obama would be considered an NBC. http://www.scribd.com/doc/20829167/Natural-Born-Citizen-Congressional-Record-6-14-1967-p-15875-80

So I see a need to settle this for all.

[edge919]

I don’t think it’s hard to settle. Vattel is very compelling on the number of times it’s been cited for citizenship. Waite called it the “nomenclature” of which the founders were familiar. And the founders, in addition to rejecting common law, wrote a grandfather clause that bestowed honorary natural-born status on those who were NOT born in the United States but who came here to fight in the rebellion against Britain. It’s the rule that was going to make Alexander Hamilton eligible for office. They respected service to the country as the ultimate form of patriotism. Wasn’t there a French guy during the revolutionary war whose family was declared to be natural-born citizens in perpetuity (or something like that)?? As the Supreme Court said, the definiton for NBC is found OUTSIDE the Constitution, and it used the law of nations to define it. That same nomenclature would encompass McCain, IMO, but not George Romney.