I only “think” what I think because I read and study what freepers who are much more intelligent than I, have researched.
I thought you just hadn’t read up.
Now I see that you value your own mental ideas over what the writers of the Constitution meant.
Your choice.
Since the founders didn’t say,”Hey, for the sake of posterity, this is exactly what NBC means,” it is up to the courts to decide. There is a good chance that they would rule in your opinion. There is a good chance that they would rule in mine.
I respect the founders of my country very much, but since my son does not have a birth father even listed on his birth certificate, there is no proof that he was born to someone who wasn’t a US citizen father. As he was born and raised in the US, and barring unforseen future events, will always be an American, I can’t see how you can make the argument that he is definitively NOT a NBC.
I understand that we know that some of the founders had read Vattel. I understand that some of them would have concluded that two citizen parents is a requirement. I do not think they were a group of men who all agreed on everything. Looking at the arguments they had over so many issues, I believe that this is no stretch of the imagination to think they might not have agreed on a definition of NBC. Is that my opinion? Sure. Didn’t realize that became something not to voice on Free Republic. Sure didn’t used to be that way. :(