I am an “original intent” kinda guy. The main reason is that I believe that our framers and founders were inspired by God. The Constitution is such an incredible document that God MUST have had a hand in it. He has blessed our nation (at least until now).
I can’t say the same for our courts and judges.
After reading the essay: The Constitutional Meaning Of “Natural Born Citizen” (see post #7 above), you will have to honestly admit that what the Constitution means by “Natural Born Citizen”, is “physically born IN the United States by TWO citizen parents.”
Like I have said before, If you were born in the contiguous United States (48) by two citizen parents who were U.S. citizens at the time of your birth, you are definitely a “Natural Born Citizen”.
At this time it is still possible to have been born in Alaska and Hawaii before they were states. Territories and possessions have various different citizenship laws. If you were not born in the lower 48, your NBC status becomes a “maybe”, and requires additional research.
Your NBC status is determined at the second of your birth. Where are you? What is the citizenship of your parentS?
Sorry for double post my computer said page can’t be displayed so I thought it didn’t post, it had.
The Founders made provision to alter their original thinking on any issue via the constitutional amendment process. They made it extremely difficult but not impossible to amend the Constitution.
One of the most important issues that the Founders and Framers debated and eventually compromised over was direct election of U.S. Senators. The Founders decided against it. The Founders decided that the House of Representatives would be popularly elected (democracy) and the Senate (from the Latin word “Senex” meaning “elder” or “wise old man”) would be indirectly elected by state legislatures (republicanism). However in 1913, the thinking of the Founders was changed by the 17th Amendment to the Constitution which provided for direct election of the U.S. Senators.
It is an analogous situation with the 14th Amendment which created only two forms of U.S. citizenship: born citizenship and naturalized citizenship. Since 1865, “Citizens of the United States at birth” and “natural born citizens” have been synonymous.