“Only because Congress changed the laws on citizenship.”
That’s my point.
Natural Born Citizen is part of the Constitution and a mere law change should not be able to change it.
The best solution would be to put the definition into the Constitution itself.
I wasn’t here for the big NBC research but I understand the principle.
The problem is that the very idea of NATURAL born citizenship is that it is considered part of the laws of nature and it was based on the common law.
No mere act of Congress should be able to change who qualifies.
But the understanding at the time the Constitution was that a nbc had both parents who were citizens. This was based on a law book whose name I cannot remember, which the Founders and other educated men studied. Both parents. The law that stopped women from automatically gaining US citizenship when they married a US citizen changed long, long ago, I don’t know when.
So if Congress wants to change that law and make women automatically citizens when they marry a US citizen, they can do that (terrible idea of course). Otherwise, until then, NBC means what it always has - born on the soil, to two parents who are citizens.
Parents can of course be naturalized before the child is born, but a naturalized citizen cannot be president.