Apparently, abiding by the Constitution isn't one of them.
Exactly Library User. “No Person except a natural born Citizen.” - U.S. Constitution.
"At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens..."
Chief Justice Morrison Waite, Minor v. Happersett, 88 US 162, (1874).
Just because no legislator will speak the truth does not mean the Constitution is now moot. We need to replace every legislator afraid to address this crystalclear issue.
It was clear enough to all of them that they could all sign Senate Res 511 in April of 2008 to cover McCain's eligibility issues. From Pat Leayhy’s web site until he scrubbed it in early 2009, but in the Congressional Archives today:
“My assumption and my understanding is that if you are born of American parents, you are naturally a natural-born American citizen,” Chertoff replied. “That is mine, too,” said Leahy.”
The senate applied jus sanguinis - born to parents who were citizens - to McCain but not to Obama. We have a banana republic where our laws disappear if they are ignored, and Santorium is a sad example of ignorance, willful or not. Other senators simply won't get near the issue. No legislator has repeated the definition, from a dozen supreme court cases, dozens of treatise and books, five Chief Justices, since applying them to McCain. Not even McCain! Obama is a naturalized citizen. He told us exactly that - "A native-born citizen of the US", from Title 8, our naturalization law. That status applied to Wong Kim Ark, and applies to anchor babies. The Constitution requires a natural citizen, over ninety percent of American citizens. He told us exactly that. His father was not a citizen. That is all the law needs to know, if the law has meaning today.