[DiogenesLamp]

BTW, Emer de Vattel is cited up and down the length of the noted paper by Jay (an intellectual giant among U.S. founding fathers).

And Jay is the initiator of the "natural born citizen" requirement.

[one guy in new jersey]

Yes, in the famous and very timely letter to GW.

“...any but...”

This language is only compatible with utter exclusivity in the status of NBC of the United States.

Levin’s 2013 loose interpretation of the term to include Cruz (birth outside the U.S. but to at least one U.S. citizen parent), and which logically would now include Harris (birth within the U.S. but to exactly zero U.S. citizen parents) can’t possibly match up with the exclusivity envisioned by Jay for the “Command in chief of the american army”.