The actual text of the FIRST CONGRESS in 1790 states,
“...children of citizens of the United States...shall be considered as natural born citizens of the United States
(FIRST CONGRESS Session II Ch.4 1790, Approved March 26, 1790, pp. 103-104.
The question is whether obama is born of American citizens and shall be considered a Natural Born citizen per the original intent of the U.S. Constitution. Congress and the Supreme court has allowed many people to claim citizenship , but this does not mean that it is Natural Born Citizenship? NO. Being an American citizen does not automatically make you a Natural born citizen. obama may have citizenship by code , but he is not a Native born citizen.
When a court makes a ruling in direct opposition to the original intent of the Constitution they are “overruling “ the constitution. A interperation of the constitution is required to follow the original intent. The Indiana court decision totally ignors the original intent.
Since 1868, the 14th Amendment has defined citizenship:
“ALL (not some, not everybody but presidential candidates) persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.”
Since the ratification of the 14th Amendment, there are only two categories of American citizen. The word ALL means ALL: Category One: born citizens; Category Two: Naturalized citizens. Born citizens can be president and naturalized citizens cannot be president. There is no distinction between a born citizen and a natural born citizen since 1868. It is dubious that there was a distinction prior to 1868 but it was never tested in Court.
“Original intent” is interpreted by the Supreme Court of the United States. They have not been interested in this issue having already refused to hear any of eight Obama eligibility appeals that have reached them for Justices’ Certiorari conferences. It only takes the concurrence of four justices (”the rule of four”) to agree to grant a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari and have the full Court hear an appeal. That means even four of the five conservatives on the high court haven’t been convinced that there is a legitimate constitutional issue to be adjudicated.
The original intent of the Founders was not to give women the right to vote. The original intent of the Founders was not to give citizenship to blacks. The original intent of the Founders was not to have direct, popular election of US Senators. All those original intents were altered by amendments to the Constitution. The original intent of the Founders was to provide a means to alter and update their work in future generations via the amendment process.
The Indiana Court of Appeals used Supreme Court precedent and the 14th Amendment as the guide for their ruling. The Indiana Supreme Court saw no reason to review the lower court’s decision.
Rep. John Bingham of Ohio, considered the father of the 14th Amendment, “ ... every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of the Constitution itself, a natural born citizen...”
Bingham ( 1868) some serious warnings:
“May God forbid by the failure of the legislative power of the people to triumph over the usurpations of an apostate President, the fabric of American empire fell and perished from the earth!... have taught us all to obey the law; that none are above the law...”
The above is paraphasing comments by Bingham
OBAMA STATED THAT HE WAS BORN WITH ALLEGIANCE TO ANOTHER NATION BY HIS DUAL CITIZSHIP AT BIRTH.
THIS ALONE WOULD DISQUALIFY HIM FROM BEING PRESIDENT