Please explain how “natural born citizen” is a subset of “citizen”?
You can find the types of statutory citizenships of the U.S.A. at www.uscis.gov., then click on ‘Citizenship’.
Natural born citizenhip is never mentioned BECAUSE it is not a type of citizenship, just an elgibility requirement to be President of the United States.
As an orginalist the definition would be defined as it was at the time of the Constitution. There is ample legal writings at the time and since then that define the term as being one born to two American citizen parents.
Leo Donforio. a lwayer of New Jersey, has done great work in recovering multiple legal cases and legal works that define ‘natural born’ citizen.
>Please explain how “natural born citizen” is a subset of “citizen”?
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>You can find the types of statutory citizenships of the U.S.A. at www.uscis.gov., then click on ‘Citizenship’.
Actually you just answered it, the set Citizen is the union of the subsets of “Natural Born Citizen” and “Statutory Citizens” and “Dual Citizens.”
>Natural born citizenhip is never mentioned BECAUSE it is not a type of citizenship, just an elgibility requirement to be President of the United States.
The reason it is in the requirements to be President is because “Statutory Citizens” owed their allegiance to some foreign country (and it would not do for the commander of the Armies and Navies to have any possible allegiance to someone with whom he might have to war with... or to try to commit the forces under his command in what would otherwise be a neutral affair).
The answer is simple.
First you have to decide if "an elgibility requirement to be President of the United States" is meant to be applied to "citizens," or just to anyone who happens to be here during an election cycle.
So, are presidential candidates drawn from a pool of "citizens" or not?
Once you answer that question, then you can ask if the highest office in the land was meant to be filled by any citizen or only from a more constrained pool of citizens. To discuss this point, you have to acknowledge that the Constitution does refer to "natural born Citizen." This fact cannot be ignored. We cannot discard it for conviencence.
So, what was meant by "natural born Citizen," so as to separate them from the larger pool of "citizen," assuming that we presume that only citizens can become President?
-PJ