[frog in a pot]

Thank you for the link.

Per the first sentence in your quote of my remarks, the other poster did present an avenue that had been bothering me for a while and I wanted to pursue that point but the thread went off the tracks.

That is that there was an abundance of NBC presidential candidates available when the Const. was first approved and signed. That caused me to wonder why they thought it necessary to provide what could be called a "mere citizen" option in their NBC clause.

There could be a couple of reason, but I have finally decided (I think) that fact really doesn't lend anything to our current effort to determine which of two NBC theories should be applied.

I prefer the parental citizenship definition, naturally; with the national security perspective they had vis-a-vis England there is no reason we should conclude they chose the weaker of the two definitions.

[DiogenesLamp]

There could be a couple of reason, but I have finally decided (I think) that fact really doesn't lend anything to our current effort to determine which of two NBC theories should be applied.

If you haven't seen it before, this page from an early 1800s Pennsylvania Law book pretty much verifies that the intent was to adopt the Vattel meaning of "natural born citizen." The book flat out states that it comes from Vattel.

[Political Junkie Too]

the other poster did present an avenue that had been bothering me for a while and I wanted to pursue that point but the thread went off the tracks.

Hey... I resemble that remark!

-PJ