[Old Teufel Hunden]

"For the last 230 years Natural born citizenship required that both parents be American citizens."

This is not true. The law has required that one parent be a citizen. You are correct about Anne Dunham and the law in 1961. She was not old enough to convey citizenship if he was born outside the U.S.. However, if he was born here then she was old enough to convey citizenship. That was the law in 1961. This is why people want to know where he was born.

[omegadawn]

Prior to the 14th automatic citizenship was restricted to those Natural born( both parents U.S. citizens Wilken vs Elk) . The 14 amendment( did not affect Natural born) gave native born citizenship to those born with partial allegiance,such as one parent a U.S. citizen or born of parents ( Wong Kim Ark case) who were legal immigrants. U.S. supreme court defined Natural Born as Children who parents were U.S. citizens(Minor vs Happensett). Natural born citizenship as defined a number of times by Congress as CHILDREN OF CITIZENS SHALL BE CONSIDERED NATURAL BORN.

If someone want to change the meaning of Natural born and Article two of the U.S. Constitution, it would require a Constitutional amendment,until then it requires both parents to be U.S. citizens to be Natural Born.