Yes we clearly need a USSC definition. They rejected 6 cases on Sotero.
Jay and Washington exchanged a letter expressing their concern about a “foreigner” being commander -in-chief.
We also have Vattel’s definition from 1744 which the founders knew about. A NBC has citizen parents and is born in country.
Here is the logic. If a child born in the US but has foreigners as parents, the child has a choice of citizenship. Using Sotero, his father was British as a Kenya at that time. So Sotero could have declared british or US. Does anyone think the founders would have accepted a Brit as commander in chief, especially after two wars?
The ability to have options about your citizenship means you are not automatically a NBC; thus you are ineligible to be president.
This recently applied to Jindal, Harris, Sotero, and I don’t know about Vivek’s parents.
Yes. See this 1817 PA Supreme Court decision on “natural born Citizen” as discussed on page 26 of this report to the PA Legislature about what British Common Law was still in effect in PA and what British Common Law was not. And clearly the laws of who was a British Subject were totally rejected and Vattel’s writings on Natural Law citizenship were accepted. See the footnote 12 on page 26: http://www.kerchner.com/protectourliberty/A-Digest-of-Select-British-Statutes-Still-in-Force-in-PA+in-1817-by-Samuel-Roberts.pdf
Emer de Vattel’s key sentence defining who is a “natural born Citizen” in his legal treatise on Natural Law and the Law of Nations can be read at this link, Vol.1, Chapter 19, Section 212: https://lonang.com/library/reference/vattel-law-of-nations/vatt-119/
Also for others here see my White Paper on the subject of the “natural born Citizen” term in our Presidential Eligibility clause of our U.S. Constitution as a PDF report at this link: http://www.kerchner.com/protectourliberty/naturalborncitizen/TheWhoWhatWhenWhereWhyandHowofNBC-WhitePaper.pdf
One can also click on my commenter ID for more information on the term “natural born Citizen” of the United States.