Nothing is better settled at the common law than the doctrine that the children, even of aliens, born in a country while the parents are resident there under the protection of the government and owing a temporary allegiance thereto, are subjects by birth
They were deciding an Issue of Article II were they?
The point is moot. Barack is the offspring of Two American Citizens.
No it isn't because if that's true, he's now complicit in a hoax as he claims his father is a foreigner. (and he's not a NBC)