“...She was born on US property, OPakland, CA, she’s a citizen whether they are or not. And as a citizen born on US property, she can even run and win the presidency at some point. God help us.”
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But what was the meaning of “natural born citizen” at the time the constitution was written? There are legitimate disagreements on that. ORIGINAL MEANING and that portion of the constitution has never been amended and, sadly, has never been DEFINITIVELY litigated.
Natural born citizen has not been totally defined. But a later article has defined the situation better:
Article 14 Sec 1:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. So just by being born in Oakland, Ca, she qualifies as a citizen on her own.
This was the reason they had to get Obama born in Hawaii as his birth, in my opinion, and witnessed by his relatives, was in Mombasa, Kenya, and his mother, the only American citizen parent, had not resided in the US for over 4 years, which disqualified him of being a citizen of the U.S. and he would have to had qualified like any other immigrant that was allowed to enter. Interesting that it didn’t make any difference until he ran for president and his birth certificate was “lost.”
rwood