The debate is reflected in the actual state and federal court rulings on Obama’s eligibility and the unwillingness of Congress to quell the debate.
21 courts explicitly ruled that Obama is a natural born citizen when plaintiffs were seeking rulings that he is not a natural born citizen.
For example: H. Brook Paige v. James Condos, Secretary of State of Vermont and President Barack Obama: Robert R. Bent, Presiding Judge
“While the court has no doubt at this point that Emmerich de Vattels treatise The Law of Nations was a work of significant value to the founding fathers, the court does not conclude that his phrase: The natives, or natural born citizens are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens, has constitutional significance or that his use of parents in the plural has particular significance. Thus far, no judicial decision has adopted such logic in connection with this or any related issues. In fact, the most comprehensive decision on the topic, Ankeny v. Governor of Indiana, examines the historical basis of the use of the phrase, including the English common law in effect at the time of independence, and concludes that the expression “natural born Citizen†is not dependent on the nationality of the parents but reflects the status of a person born into citizenship instead of having citizenship subsequently bestowed. The distinction is eminently logical.”—Vermont Superior Court, November 14, 2012
http://www.scribd.com/doc/113533939
Citing the jabberwocky of Ankeny marks Bent as a fool.