You are correct.
It is totally amazing how people do not understand the difference between “natural born” and “native born”. Heck, even on the GOP side we have a lot of people stuck on stupid with the issue...this election would not be as close if people understood it better.
I was not born in the USA, but was born in a military hospital in Germany. I have to explain to people that I am not natural born....and the Senate RESOLUTION that was passed when McCain ran is just a RESOLUTION...it is not a BILL or LAW. I also have Naturalization papers, yet people still insist I would be “natural born” because I was born on US military installation
As for writing a letter...maybe just explain to the supervising person the difference between “natural” and “native” born....and not so much on the deportment of the staff member. Sometimes those staff members are there only for a paycheck
That you were born in a military hospital in Germany does not disqualify you from being a “natural born Citizen,” provided you were born to U.S. “citizen” parents who were in Germany serving the national defense of the United States. If this is true, you would have been born in Germany to parents who were U.S. “citizens” and serving in the armies of the state. Emer de Vattel at Section 217 of The Law of Nations (1758) informs that someone born under such circumstances is “reputed born in the country; for a citizen, who is absent with his family on the service of the state, but still dependent on it, and subject to its jurisdiction, cannot be considered as having quitted its territory.” We know from the historical record and case law that the law of nations became part of our national law and therefore part of “the Laws of the United States.” Article III, Section 2. There are several U.S. Supreme Court cases that have cited and quoted Vattel regarding matters of U.S. citizenship, especially on defining a “natural-born citizen.” Moreover, the First Congress in 1790 in the Naturalization Act of 1790 expressed a desire that children born out of the United States to U.S. citizen parents be “considered as natural born citizens.” It is true that Congress, ever since 1795 with the Naturalization Act of 1795 changed the language from “natural born citizen” to just “citizen of the United States.” This shows that early Congress, many members of which were Founders and Framers, had every intention to carefully distinguish between a “natural born Citizen” and a “citizen of the United States,” revealing that, with the limited exception under the grandfather clause which expired with children born after the adoption of the Constitution, only the former were to be eligible to be President and not the latter. But again, the limiting language only applies to those children born out of the United States. Since a valid argument can be made under American common law that you were born in the United States, you do not fall into the “citizen of the United States” class, but rather into the “natural born Citizen” class.
Mario Apuzzo, Esq.