Why do some arguments on the issue of eligibility ignore the fact that the Constitution speaks about “citizens’ and ‘natural born’ citizens in two different and distinct parts of the Constitution? Also, why is the issue of the parents citizenship/allegiance so often left out of the debate?
Natural Born Citizen means Citizen at the moment of birth and nothing else.
The citizenship of the parents only really matters if the child is born on foreign soil. In those cases, the laws have changed several times over the years, and it would depend on the laws on the books at the time of the birth.
Elaborate?