Here’s where I hang my hat. Vattel and the letter between Jay and Washington concerned about a “foreigner” being commander in chief.
If you have a choice at birth let’s say like Obama who could be a Brit by virtue of his father’s citizenship or a US by virtue of his mother (assuming he was born in Hawaii), then you are not natural born to the US because you have a choice. It would seem that the founders coming off the revolution would not want the son or daughter of a British citizen to be president, even though they grandfathered themselves.
So the citizenship of the parents determines. Jindal, Obama, Haley, Harris, Vivek not eligible.
I do acknowledge we need congressional action or USSC decision to have any certainty. Of course the court rejected 6 cases on Obama’s qualifications.
ditto
Don’t leave Cruz off that list.
Concur..this is the correct definition
“I do acknowledge we need congressional action or USSC decision to have any certainty. Of course the court rejected 6 cases on Obama’s qualifications.’
I agree with most of what you said except the above.
Congress can NOT fix this. It HAS TO BE A constitutional amendment. PERIOD!!!!
SCOTUS CAN make a determination. “Interpret” the constitution is EXACTLY what they are there for.
In this highly politicized time/court, they don’t want to touch this with a ten foot pole.
I fear their decision would NOT be what I THINK the framers meant.
I think they would interpret it (MAKE NEW LAW), in a way that I would be sure that the framers would NOT agree with.
To make this “right”, they would be saying that Obama was illegitimate. Which he WAS, but they won’t say it/CAN’T say it.
A constitutional amendment is the ONLY way to fix this correctly.
It will NEVER happen.