Interesting post but that wasn’t the law and didn’t apply before 1986 and certainly wasn’t in 1961 at the time of Soetoro/Obama/Dunham’s birth.
This was the requirement to satisfy prior to 1986 and applied to all born before that date.
“U.S. law at the time of his birth required his natural-born parent (his mother) to have resided in the United States for 10 years, at least five of which had to be after the age of 16.’”
Obama/Soetoro/Dunham’s mother was 18 years old at the time of his birth. she would have had to be 21 to have been able to confer natural-born citizenship to him in the event his father was a foreigner
Bingo. That is correct. I grew up with friends who were born in Africa to an American mother and a Canadian father. While US naturalized citizenship was easy for them to obtain, they were not considered “natural born.”
Congress decreed in 1790 that “...the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond the sea, or outside the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens...”
In other words, the term “natural born” at the time of the US Constitution’s writing meant someone who was born inside the US. As time went on, as with this 1790 law, it became necessary to include exceptions as “natural born.”
There are a couple of issues with Obama, but if he was born in the US, then he is a natural born US citizen.
1. Without a birth certificate, there is no proof that he was born in the US.
2. Without a DNA swab, there’s no proof that the woman he calls mother is his mother.
3. This article suggests that sister Maya was born in Indonesia and that someone had fabricated a birth certificate for her.