No not end of story. I do believe McCain was not a NBC because he was born at a hospital off the base.
You are taking what I said out of context. I said when the Constitution needs to be interpreted in Justice Thomas’s opinion one needs to go back & understand the Framer’s viewpoint. What they read & wrote that pertains to this subject. I am not saying that Vattel’s work is legally binding but that his book was widely read at the time & therefore a good source of the framer’s viewpoint.
You never answered my question: why did the framers write natural born citizen why not just the word “citizen”?
We all know his mother was a citizen that is not a questioned. The problem lies with his father being a British & later Kenyan citizen. It is a question of allegiance.
There is also the question of Obama being a citizen of Indonesia. We do not know for certain because he has not released his records & he was not vetted by the media. We know more than we need to know about Sarah Palin’s private life but Obama is a mystery.
You never answered my question: why did the framers write natural born citizen why not just the word “citizen”?I don't know. I guess I could look it up, but it doesn't really matter to me, since Obama clearly meets the test.
The problem lies with his father being a British & later Kenyan citizen. It is a question of allegiance.The fact that his mother was a US citizen is sufficient. Where does it say otherwise? Do you really think that Obama would have allegiance to Kenya or Britain because of a father he hardly even knew? Really?
There is also the question of Obama being a citizen of Indonesia.Also not an issue as he never renounced his American citizenship. Whether or not Indonesia considered him a citizen does not change the fact that America continued to consider him a citizen, which it did.