“I do not stand here to cavil with men who are not read in the horn-books of the law; but I assert that every man born within the limits of the Republic, or under its flag at sea, of parents who were not the subjects of any other sovereignty, are, in the very words of the Constitution, natural born citizens”
John Bingham, framer of Amendment XIV that made Obama, Harris and Haley US citizens
from the Cong. Globe, 37th, 2nd Sess., 407 (1862)
https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=058/llcg058.db&recNum=64
Enter in 407, click Turn to image, and look at the end of the first and beginning of the second column.
I found that quote on The Conservative Treehouse about a year ago. As far as I know, it never came to public notice during Obama’s terms in office.
A portion of it has been my tagline since 2011.
Actually, my tagline is a slightly different statement of Bingham on the same topic.