Apparently I’m the odd man out here.
A child born in the United States to parents here legally, although not yet citizens?
Yes, I think that child is natural born, and can run for president.
I said exactly what you said earlier.
What a load of crap.
Read the Constitution.
That does not make sense that the founders would conclude that a British citizen could sail here and give birth, take the child back to England (or not), and then the child could be POTUS 35 years later.
It is ridiculous enough that a pregnant woman can place one toe across the US border while giving birth and the resultant child is then declared a US citizen. Being a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN takes more than that, thank goodness.
Then you are clueless about the wording, intent, and purpose of the clause in the Constitution. John Jay and the Constitutional Convention put the clause into the Constitution to guarantee the only person eligible to the Office of the President and serve as the Commander-in-Chief of the American Army hen born after the adoption of the Constitution would be a person who owed no allegiance at birth or after birth to any foreign sovereign. It so happens they used the terminology of a natural born citizen as described in Vattel's Law of Nations. No matter what is used to try and dispute the meaning of natural born citizen and miisrepresent its purpose and origin, the intent of John Jay, the later first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, cannot be disregarded, ignored, or denied without committing a gross deceit.
Any child born in the United States whose parents a foreign citizens is a natural born citizen of the foreign nation and owes allegiance to the foreign sovereign at birth. The moment the child is born owing allegiance to a foreign sovereign, that person can no longer be eligible to the Office of the President. The Office of the President was restricted by the Founding Fathers, who wrote the Constitution, to only those persons never owing allegiance to a foreign sovereign at birth or after birth.