“No he is not constitutionally qualified by being born here. If that was true every anchor baby in America would be eligible to be President. That is not “Natural Born”. The accepted definition of “Natural Born” is born on US soil of 2 citizen parents.”
Rubbish. If that were the case the Constitution would have said so. “Natural born” means one is a citizen at birth rather than naturalized later, and that is all. Under current law, which I support changing, every single anchor baby is indeed eligible, as are people born overseas to American citizen parents.
Sincere thanks for helpfully and succinctly laying out the case for the other team.
My team says the Constitution lays out a scale of increasingly restrictive qualifications for the various elected Federal Offices. It admits any other type of citizen to any office, providing various residency requirements are met, reserving only the Presidency to
In re:"anchor babies:" Automatic granting of citizenship to the offspring of illegal aliens, or indeed any alien, is NOT a law. It is a by-now stupid custom of this country, alone BTW, among civilized nations.
Natural born means to descend from the original citizens that were made after the ratification.
Natural born means from the same family, offspring, race. Natural is a Kind it comes from the word gecynde.
The Founders limited the Presidency to natural born citizens a meaning that has been misconstrued over the years.
The 14th Amendment gives citizenship..not natural born citizenship.