I must respectfully disagree my FRiend. Natural born citizen is clearly a higher category of citizenship required to be president of the country, otherwise why would it have been specified as such in the constitution? As understood at the time of the founding, natural born meant the issue of citizen parents who would have no divided loyalties. Conflating native born with natural born does not make sense because that would make US-born children of illegal aliens eligible for the presidency.
This issue really cries out for a definitive SCOTUS ruling but unfortunately it is always too hot to touch or too cold to be of interest to them.
I’m sorry but you’re just wrong. There’s been so much misinformation paraded as true in this unending debate, people of good will are becoming confused. There is no such thing as “native” born in the law. There is citizenship by birth and there is citizenship by statute(naturalized) and that’s it.
And yes, technically, a child born here to illegal immigrants could in fact be eligible to run for President. I don’t like it, but that’s the law.
I have no doubt that if they were to define natural born citizen, they would decide on something even more liberal than the commonly-held definition of being born on U.S. soil. By that I mean they would include everyone with citizenship at birth, including those born overseas.
The idea that they would make it significantly more strict, thereby invalidating the Obama presidency, is nothing more than a pipe dream.