I take you back to the year 2005, long before I ever heard of him. My wife was pregnant with our son. As my wife was a permanent resident at the time, I distinctly remember myself thinking that our son would never be able to be POTUS. Immediately followed by the thought that I would never want him to be POTUS, anyway.
For as long as I can remember, my understanding of nbC was always "born in the country to two citizen parents." And there have been plenty of other posts on these threads from other people who also have believed the same for many years. So please stop pretending that it's a new idea. It's not.
Now go away.
WildSnail wrote: “For as long as I can remember, my understanding of nbC was always ‘born in the country to two citizen parents.’ And there have been plenty of other posts on these threads from other people who also have believed the same for many years. So please stop pretending that it’s a new idea. It’s not”
So why can you not show me a single one who expressed this view before they needed reasons why Barack Obama cannot be president? Civics textbooks, legal journals, /Blacks Law Dictionary/ stated that the native born are eligible, and no one can find any rebuttal. It may have been in doubt before the 14’th Amendment and its interpretation in U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, but not in our time.
If I’m wrong, please cite. I’ll still disagree, but I acn respect a contrarian. What I don’t respect is people who start telling the rules different when they don’t like who is winning.