Define "natural born" in the constitutional context.
Exam with great scrutiny why the founders added the "natural born" requirement for presidential candidates but not for congressional candidates.
I believe what Jim posted in post #1 did an excellent job of that.
Exam with great scrutiny why the founders added the "natural born" requirement for presidential candidates but not for congressional candidates.
Alexander Hamilton was by far the most divisive of the Founding Fathers and he was also born overseas. Hamilton was doing everything possible to ensure that he could be president eventually and others were trying just as hard to prevent it. In the end, we got the language we have.
As I said earlier, I tired of this long ago. As much as I detest Obama, it was embarrassing to watch otherwise intelligent people put forth the absurd conspiracy theory that a mixed-race couple in the Jim Crow era would contrive to put their son's birth announcement in a Hawaiian newspaper to cover-up the actual circumstances of his birth because they wanted him to be president four decades later. EVERY conspiracy I've ever seen, from the 9/11 and Katrina truthers to the fake Moon landing crowd is more credible than this one.