[kiryandil]

Indonesian Muslims born in Kenya are "natural born citizens".

Naturally.

[broken_clock]

Good article.

[Vendome]

Catlin Jenner is Natural Born

[Dilbert San Diego]

Until or unless the Supreme Court ever rules on this, we will always have endless debates on this.

Some say Obama was ineligible because he wasn’t born in America.

Others say he was ineligible because even if he was born in Hawaii, because his father being a British subject made him ineligible, even though his mother was an American citizen.

But nobody stopped him from running and becoming president, so in fact he was president, even though many say he was ineligible.

Many others have said on this site that people such as Bobby Jindal, Nikki Haley, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Kamala Harris are ineligible for various reasons.

Some say that you must be born of two American citizen parents and also be born on America soil to be a natural born citizen.

Others say that simply being born in America, makes you a natural born citizen, regardless of the status of your parents citizenship or nationality.

As a practical matter, I seriously doubt that anyone will challenge the eligibility of anyone running for president on the basis of not being a natural born citizen.

I’m sure someone will present evidence as to why Obama or others are legally ineligible to be president.

All I’m saying is that realistically, only a Supreme Court decision would settle it, and realistically, nobody will challenge the right of someone born in American to foreign born parents to run for president.

[proud American in Canada]

The last time was Arnold? Really?

Hmmm. I can think of another, perhaps more recent time.

[mass55th]

My mother's side of the family originally came from both Holland and England, and settled in the New York City area. Another Great-grandfather on her side came over on the Mayflower, signed the Mayflower Compact and settled in Massachusetts. Others ancestors settled in Rhode Island. The English branch of her family that had settled in New York State, and the one she's directly descended from, left the U.S. and went to Canada after the Revolutionary War, and that's where she was born. She came here as a little girl with her mother and brother. Born in 1920, she was around 3 or 4 at the time. She married my father when she was 16. He was a naturalized citizen, having come over with his parents, and his two brothers from Holland in 1912. He was around 8 at the time. My mother never became a citizen despite my father hounding her. Her mother went back to Canada around 1946, and died there, never having become a citizen either. I always thought I was a first generation American, but according to this article, I might actually be 2nd generation:

Is an Immigrant Considered First or Second Generation?

[Nifster]

This battle was list long ago. The founders were clear. The populace was not

[zeestephen]

The only time it will ever matter is if a Conservative candidate for president has citizenship issues.

[Steven Tyler]

Child born, on US soil, to US Citizen parents.

The only way to block other Countries from laying claim to the baby

[Steven Tyler]

No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.

No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

Clear and unambiguous. No definition of the word is needed.
Congressmen and Senators have to be Citizens for x number of years. Natural born Citizens are Citizens since they were born, and Statues not required.
Founders grandfathered everyone cause you could not restrict the office to baby’s and children for the first 35 years of the republic

[suthener]

The issue that I totally disagree with is a child born overseas due to their parent being on military orders. To say that child is not a natural born citizen is ridiculous.

[Responsibility2nd]

NBC. Poorly written and badly defined. Had to be redefined again in 1790. That was still not clear and so DOZENS of court cases and SCOTUS decisions have still not explained who is and who isn’t a NBC.

Here’s a clue: Are you a US citizen? Yes? Then you can be the President.

Prove me wrong.

[originalbuckeye]

Doesn’t matter. Who in our Government is going to refuse to let immigrants be second in line to the Presidency? Who has the power, outside of Trump? Who in our Government would have Trump’s back if he challenged a Harris VP slot?

The Republican Party is mostly a bunch of ‘go along to get along’ weenies.