[Jack Black]

The weight of legal and historical authority indicates that the term “natural born” citizen would mean a person who is entitled to U.S. citizenship “by birth” or “at birth”, either by being born “in” the United States and under its jurisdiction, even those born to alien parents; by being born abroad to U.S. citizen-parents; or by being born in other situations meeting legal requirements for U.S. citizenship “at birth”. Such term, however, would not include a person who was not a U.S. citizen by birth or at birth, and who was thus born an “alien” required to go through the legal process of “naturalization” to become a U.S. citizen. I think that is, at this point, the defacto definition.

Yes, SeekAndFind, this has always struck me as the most obvious and simple definition of NBC. One that most people would intuitively think makes sense. That's not to say it's the right one: there are some alternative ones that have been floated here, and there is some period documentation to support them.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: d, this has always struck me as the most obvious and simple definition of NBC. One that most people would intuitively think makes sense.

What we really need is a constitutional amendment to :

1) CLEARLY DEFINE what natural born means so as to make this debate moot.

2) Make citizenship by birth MORE STRINGENT. One amendment I’d like to see it to DENY babies born on US soil whose parents are illegal automatic citizenship.