Here's what Harvard law has to say about this:
https://harvardlawreview.org/2015/03/on-the-meaning-of-natural-born-citizen/
"While some constitutional issues are truly difficult, with framing-era sources either nonexistent or contradictory, here (for eligibilty to become President per the article attached above), the relevant materials clearly indicate that a “natural born Citizen” means a citizen from birth with no need to go through naturalization proceedings. The Supreme Court has long recognized that two particularly useful sources in understanding constitutional terms are British common law3× and enactments of the First Congress.4× Both confirm that the original meaning of the phrase “natural born Citizen” includes persons born abroad who are citizens from birth based on the citizenship of a parent."
Only one parent is required to be a citizen to be eligible, not both. That's how I remember it from history class in school too.
Not looking for another slide on this topic from the last time either.
Happy 4th of July
nope. If one parent wasn’t a citizen at birth, then they don’t qualify to be President OR VP.
are citizens from birth based on the citizenship of a parent.
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So children born to one citizen soldier deployed overseas, are automatically natural born citizens?!
If so, this is excellent news for at least one individual I know of.
Harvard Law Review can go pound sand.
During the 0bola reserach threads, there were hundreds and hundreds of comments - more - about the meaning of Natural Born Citizen. It is clear what ther writers of the Constiuttion meant.
Subsequent SCOTUS rulings also make it clear, to those who read it carefully.
ANything that Harvard put together in 2015 is guaranteed to be bogus, supporting their boy 0bola.
Should have added - the meaning at the time Constiution was written was a NBC was determined by this Jus Soli and Jus Sanguinis - by birth on the soil from parents who are citizens.
There are many detailed threads about this with long legal excerpts and explanations, historical context and cases cited, probably around 2009/2010 or so. If I tried I could probably dig some up.
Awww, ya had to go there. Must vent...
May have said it here before, but I believe the founders left NBC deliberately vague. They wrote it to be as restrictive as any citizen wishes it to be. It’s the citizens that vote, not judges. You don’t believe the candidate is qualified, then it’s your duty to not let them have your vote. For too long we have been given pitiful choices in candidates, we now know why. BO was clearly the next logical progression in their corruption so that ultimately any foreigner could run for President.
As a nation, we were never even allowed to have the discussion of his qualifications. That really informed us what we were up against and how deep the corruption had to be in both parties, our courts, and our security agencies.
GWB should have sent up a flare, the Republican Party, the FBI, the CIA, the Supreme Court (Roberts especially, since he had to administer the oath of office something like — three times?), but not a peep. Sheriff Joe was the only real person to vet that phony BC — far more than Pelosi or any of our intel agencies and look what they did to him.
Plenty of citizens tried to address it over BO’s two terms, but then the courts kept shutting them down about cause. Trillions of tax-payer dollars spent paying out favors to the Friends of Soros/Hillary/China/Saudis/etc, passed one of the largest tax burdens on individuals — ever, deliberately suppressed our economy, the most transparently criminal administration in US history, clearly spied on rival candidates in an upcoming election, is presently operating a shadow government against this President, and is actively behind the coup to overthrow the current administration. How could there possibly be any more cause than that!
Had to, for the country, especially on this day. We deserved better and in 2016 we elected him. God bless America!