[jcsjcm]

It is only the way that I interpret what the founding fathers meant by natural born. You can be a citizen and be a Senator, but you must be a natural born to be the President or Vice President. It has to be a more stringent rule.

I am assuming do to the previous post I made about the Perkins case. Elg was only considered a citizen, not natural born since one of her parents was still a foreign citizen.

I think it is very difficult for us as laymen to really determine what the founders meant, but they did state natural born to US citizens (plural) which only could mean both parents. Again, not a lawyer!

[Tublecane]

“Elg was only considered a citizen, not natural born since one of her parents was still a foreign citizen.”

They didn’t discuss whether she was “natural born” or not, so fdar as I read. The issue at stake was simply whether or not she was a citizen.

“I think it is very difficult for us as laymen to really determine what the founders meant, but they did state natural born to US citizens (plural) which only could mean both parents.”

Where did they state that? i don’t remember it being in the Constitution.

[calenel]

Check out Perkins vs. Elg pages Page 307 U.S. 328-331.

Perkins vs Elg eliminates the "two US citizen parents" [328, 329], "two US born parents" [329] and "Parents can renounce children's citizenship" [329] arguments. It validates the "citizen at birth by virtue of being born in US" argument [328] and "dual citizenships are okay" [330, 331] positions.