the term ‘natural born citizen’ has nothing to do with the physical act of birth
it has to do with the person’s alliegences at the time of birth. the founders intention was to insure that the person in the office only had allegiances to the United States. as such, if both parents are US citizens at the time of birth, the child ‘naturally’ has allegiances to the US... as there would be no other allegiance possible
anyone that says otherwise it attempting to cloud a simplistic issue to further their own ideological goals
You cannot possibly hold a mixed race man eligible for Kenyan, UK, Indonesian, and American citizenship to such narrow nationalistic standards. The fellows who wrote the Constitution were like these old, now-dead white guys, some of whom owned slaves. I saw the document. It is not even typed. It is on this old funky yellow paper.
A white guy President, Chester A. Arthur turns out to have been ineligible by their impossibly archaic standards, so it's only fair that a half-black guy get to skate on this dumb rule, too.
Besides, it's entirely possible that the guy was like born in Hawaii. Lot's of people are born there every day! Hey, what's on cable tonight?
it has to do with the person’s alliegences at the time of birth. the founders intention was to insure that the person in the office only had allegiances to the United States. as such, if both parents are US citizens at the time of birth, the child ‘naturally’ has allegiances to the US... as there would be no other allegiance possible
anyone that says otherwise it attempting to cloud a simplistic issue to further their own ideological goals
I would say that this is true in some cases, (Obot trolls) however I think most of the public has bought the argument that being "born a citizen" is the same thing as being a "natural born citizen" and if a person accepts that as true, the 14th amendment (in their mind) would make anyone "born here" into a "natural born citizen." It is a simplistic and false understanding of the concept and the purpose behind it.
Unfortunately, too many of the public believe this, and for most attorneys this idea appears to be gospel. We as a nation are suffering for the ignorance of our populace, no doubt brought about by the infiltration of Liberal ideas and thinking into our culture.