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.
Thank you kindly. I agree about being careful of facts too. Maybe it’s just me, but it seems to me that the postings are not as factual here as they once were.
Regarding Congress, I did look at the history of some of the laws. In 1790, they did pass a law to define children of American parents born overseas to be NBC (unless the father had never been a resident of the USA).
Then in 1795 they passed another law which did not use NBC, just citizen. Then there were some Supreme Court cases that undermined the Congressional action.
The legal article I was looking at did not explain this fully, but did state that it was doubtful whether congress had the authority to define the term, although, at the time they certainly thought they could.