[Clemenza]

Forget "original intent" or your own interpretation of the constitution. You have decades of judicial precedent against you. This is our Common Law system. Deal with it (by getting originalist justices appointed).

And the next person who tells me that congress can nullify supreme court decisions (usually by quoting the Birchers) needs to get back to the crack pipe.

[so_real]

I do not believe I understand fully your post to me. Telling anyone to forget "original intent", especially a Conservative, is not wise. There is considerable judicial precedent in interpreting what a "citizen" is, I agree. But I've yet to see where a court has attempted to alter the very special meaning behind "natural born citizen". The numerous cases I've read skirt the issue and intentionally so. Congress has been granted the authority specifically in the Constitution to define a uniform means of naturalization. Ergo, I have no problem with Congress defining what makes a "citizen" even if I happen to disagree with the details. However, every citizen made by Congress is a "naturalized" citizen. And Congress has not been granted the authority in the Constitution to redefine that which is a "natural born citizen". Therefore, they cannot. And no legal precedent in our history has indicated they can. That would be unconstitutional.