Born in the United States to parents both in this Country legally, lawfully, and citizens of.
ransacked is staking out the position that the Founders’ notion of “natural born citizen” was that of the Swiss jurist Vattel. The contrary position holds that the Founders’ notion of “natural born citizen” corresponded to the British notion of “natural born subject”, which would be the same as native born (cf. Blackstone).
Without a case law ruling on the meaning from a court, which position holds is a matter of debate. It is one of the outrageous things about the courts avoiding the Obama eligibility question that we do not have a clear interpretation of the phrase. If it is read according to Vattel’s notion, then the birth certificate is an irrelevancy (unless it’s being hidden because Barack Obama, Sr. was not the father, but some, embarrassing U.S. citizen like the Communist Frank Marshall Davis, in which case showing that he lied in his “auto”biography and was born in Hawaii would prove Obama’s eligibility). If read according to British custom as explained by Blackstone, the location of Obama’s birth matters.