[CodeToad]

“Natural Born is just so much flowery prose.”

It means simply a person who is a citizen by birth and not naturalized, not an immigrant.

All this barracks lawyering trying to claim it means this, that, and the other is garbage. And, yes, anchor babies are US citizens by birth, making them natural born citizens.

What were the founding fathers supposed to write using proper English, “...born citizen”, “...citizen”?

If they meant, “a citizen born within the borders of the united States to two parents, each of whom is also a US citizen, and not citizens of any other country, both having sworn allegiance to the these united States, having been here at least four generations...”, they would have said so.

Sorry, but natural born was simply a means to say citizenship by birth and not an immigrant.

[MileHi]

Great. So America hating anchor babies born of welfare leaches who never wanted to be Americans can be the next Barry Soetoro.

That HAS to be good for us.

I finally get it...

[Diego1618]

If they meant, “a citizen born within the borders of the united States to two parents, each of whom is also a US citizen, and not citizens of any other country, both having sworn allegiance to the these united States, having been here at least four generations...”, they would have said so.

They didn't need to. Everyone at the time knew exactly what the phrase meant. It would be redundant (defining it) if it were already part of the 18th century Lexicon........which it was! That's why both definitions, Natural Born Citizen and Citizen appear in [Article II; Section I] of the Constitution. If there had been no difference in the meaning..... there would have been no need to include both terms!