saying that any person born within the US is natural born, regardless of the citizenship status of the parents, is absurd. if this were true, then the founders would not have not use the phrase ‘natural born’. it would also mean any anchor baby could be president, so long as they were of age and in the US for 14 years.
sen bill S.2128 tried to push this and it didn’t fly.
native born == born within the US
natural born == a native born person born of two US parents
fairly simple and straight forward.
i am native born, having been born of an American father and a british mother, who became a US citizen later. i am not eligible for POTUS due to this.
do i have split alliances? sure. i feel affinity towards scotland, more so then if i had no ties whatsoever. this is exactly what the founders were pushing to avoid. their intent, captured in simple language made convoluted by those attempting to help ‘their team’, was to insure the integrity of the highest office of the land. to insure the person holding the office had the best interests of the US in mind.
i think we can all see the wisdom of their ideals on display over the last 2 1/2 yrs.
“if this were true, then the founders would not have not use the phrase ‘natural born’.”
No, it isn’t. Read the WKA decision. Natural born subject had a well established legal meaning in 1787, and it included those born of aliens. NBC is the American form of NBS, unless the Founders were deliberately trying to confuse people.
And the states replaced NBS in their laws with NBC, so it seems pretty plausible that the terms carry the same basic legal meaning.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0169_0649_ZO.html