“Can you cite any court causes where the court said that native born and natural born are different or that the meaning changed between the Founding era and today?”
“Kawakita v. United States, 1952”
A very interesting case, which supports John Jay letter’s concerns, IMO, although the court did not rule on Kawakita’s NBC v. native citizen status. Certainly if Kawakita had been a Vattel NBC (two citizen parents on US soil) he would not have found himself in his WWII predicament where Japan could demand that he fight against the US.
If Kawakita were to have successfully hidden his wartime activities in Japan, he would have been qualified to be POTUS as an NBC after the war, in the estimation of the current US congress and courts, it seems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawakita_v._United_States
“Decision
“On September 2, 1948, a jury of 9 men and 3 women found that Kawakita owed allegiance to the United States during his residence in Japan. Charged with 15 overt acts, he was found guilty of eight. His U.S. citizenship was revoked, and he was sentenced to death.
“Kawakita appealed the decision to the United States Supreme Court, which heard it in April 1952. On June 2, 1952, the Supreme Court ruled to support the lower court’s judgment and confirmed Kawakita’s death sentence.
“However, President Dwight D. Eisenhower viewed the punishment as excessive and on October 29, 1953 commuted Kawakita’s sentence to life imprisonment. Ten years later, during the closing of Alcatraz prison where Kawakita was serving his time, President John F. Kennedy pardoned him on October 24, 1963 on the condition that he be deported to Japan and banned from American soil for life.”
Interesting case — so much for the innocuous nature of dual citizenship.