[Art in Idaho]

"Can we reasonably conclude that the Founding Fathers, who had just fought a war with Great Britain and who did not want a foreigner to occupy the Office of President, would have allowed a British citizen, who carries that status not only from birth but also to the time he occupies the Office, to be President of the United States and Commander in Chief of its Military?"

Rep. John Bingham of Ohio, considered the father of the Fourteenth Amendment, . . in the House on March 9, 1866:  "I find no fault with the introductory clause [S 61 Bill], which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Consti tution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents [plural, meaning two] not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Consti tution itself, a natural born citizen." Obama's father was a foreigner. He has a natural born allegiance to the land of his father. This condition means by definition that he cannot ever have a Natural Born allegiance exclusively to the USA. It means he can not legally command our US military. He was never a Natural Born Citizen of the USA and never will be.

Also, here is the response from an attorney practicing in the federal court system regarding Obama and the "natural born citizen" question. He said it's really quite simple. Natural Born Citizen has two conditions that are required to be met: (1) Born in the U.S. Mainland (soil of the U.S. - 50 states) and (2) Born to 2 American citizen parents. He also said natural-born citizenship is the main issue, not the birth certificate. That's it. So now what?

[Spaulding]

Thank you Art in Idaho. I couldn't have said it as well! But I do think it is important to keep answering that question as clearly as you have so that people will begin to understand that all the other issues, because we have have denied almost all documentation, are hearsay. They may be, and I would say probably are, “head fakes” (as someone on FR once called them).

John Jay couldn't have been more clear. All the issues around statutes are irrelevant.

Also worth noting to the gentleman married to a Japanese citizen that regardless of what one attorney may have told you, your children are not natural born citizens. The law is clear, and is not intended to be fair.

The requirement that a president be a natural born citizen was inserted as a change in an early draft of the constitution at the request of John Jay for our protection.

[RegulatorCountry]

That's it. So now what?

It means that Joseph Robinette Biden already is acting President, under a strict reading of the Constitution, as improbable as that sounds.

[Vincent Jappi]

This indeed makes eligibility most unlikely. On the other hand, per Minor v. Happersett (1874), the Supreme Court says the jurisprudence hasn’t been settled.