You are correct. These laws that are quoted peretain to citizenship-not necessarily NBC as it pertains to a person’s qualification to be president.
Congress was given the power to pass immigration and naturalization laws, not to determine the definition of natural born.
It appears that any laws congress passes relate therefore to citizenship, but not NBC. The only thing I am certain of after reading constitution, court cases, state department rules, legal briefs, news articles etc. is this:
A person born in the US, to parents who are both citizens, subject to the US jurisdiction, and owing no alligiance to a foreign entity is a NBC and qualifies for president after meeting the other qualifications.
Beyond that, it has not been definitively defined. It is even uncertain whether a person born to US citizens while they are abroad are NCB for the purpose of qualifying for president. The State Department acknowledges this.
EXACTLY. You sum it up nicely. Anyone claiming that Obama is not a NBC is only GUESSING - even Fukino - unless daddy isn’t Obama Sr. I am going to write that office today and question them on what rule of law they looked at to come to that determination.
The one thing I am not sure about is your concept of Congress not being able to pass a law defining natural born citizen. I think they just haven’t done it.
There are just too many facts that are unknown in this case. You have to stair step the analysis because of the Indonesian part of this. I didn’t even do much research into that angle but still found plenty of issues with just the beginning part of his story.
I see so much rubbish on this site. For example, someone posting that a statute used the words Natural born citizen..and then people run with it without checking it out.
I wish Mindbender would post where he found that..it wouldn’t surprise me in the least to find that it was at some lawyers site involved with this issue.