Yep, this subject of natural born citizenship is back.
This subject comes up regularly on Free Republic.
Some Freepers say, that both of your parents must have been American citizens at the time of your birth, for you to be a natural born citizen.
Other Freepers say, that as long as you yourself were born in America, that makes you a natural born citizen, regardless of your parents citizenship or immigration status.
And then still other Freepers will say that this ship has sailed with Obama and Kamala, and realistically, there is no controlling legal authority, to prevent any American born American citizen from running for president.
And then some Freepers say that there has never been a definitive court case to define what Natural Born Citizen even means. So there’s that.
Some recent threads on this subject have had hundreds of replies, with Freepers on either side of the debate, presenting evidence and arguing back and forth.
This will not be settled until SCOTUS decides. And then only until that case is overturned.
It is CLEAR, that Vattel’s definition of “natural born citizen” was what the framers/founders understood to be the meaning of the term.
BOOK I.
LAW OF NATIONS
§ 212. Citizens and natives.
“The natives, or natural-born citizens,
are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens.”
Very concise! Born IN THE COUNTRY of parentS (BOTH) who are citizens.
“ prevent any American born American citizen from running for president.”
There’s nothing in the Constitution about “running for President”. That’s because there’s nothing in the Constitution about Presidential elections.
If the NBC clause were ever to be used, it would have to bar an inauguration of a person found ineligible under that clause.