If you are born in this country, you are a citizen. If you don't like that fact, repel the 14th. But the attempts of birthers to get around it seem downright seditious sometimes.
[t]he phrase, subject to its jurisdiction was intended to exclude from its operation children of ministers, consuls, and citizens or subjects of foreign States born within the United States.
or how about Rep Bingham who wrote the actual language of the bill that passed the House of Reps:
I find no fault with the introductory clause [S 61 Bill], which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen. Now, where in either
The Constitution I have a copy of specifically requires a ‘natural born citizen’ NOT just an ordinary ‘citizen’ as noted in the 14th amendment. I alluded to this in a prvious posting as to my brother and I being born of non-naturalized Russian immigrants, thus not being eligible for POTUSA. We both served in WWII. Brother was killed on Okinawa. As much as I had thought as a child that I could be POTUSA I had to settle for smething less grandiose such as a foot soldier.
E. Vattel was not French. The 14th Amendment has nothing to do with a natural born citizen. All citizens cannot be a natural born citizen.
The 14th Amendment gave citizenship to former slaves. Nothing more. Please do not distort and warp our laws for political and personal gain.
It is a canker that eats at the heart of our constitution.