There’s a 1730 British law which I don’t have the energy to track down.
It required the father to be a natural born citizen.
Since we are not into sex discrimination in the modern USA, Obama with his natural born American mom was not judicially barred by it.
Harris’ parents were migrants. Mom left for Canada with her offspring and daddy went back to Jamaica.
If “modern USA” didn’t update the wording of requirements then the existing wording still stands.
Just like towns that still have law or regulations saying you can’t walk your cow down Main Street or other ones that don’t really pertain to “modern USA”.
Assuming a change is ok does not make it so.
...Obama with his natural born American mom was not judicially barred by it.
His mother's status matters not if his father wasn't naturalized.
It required the father to be a natural born citizen.
Since we are not into sex discrimination in the modern USA, Obama with his natural born American mom was not judicially barred by it.
Harris’ parents were migrants. Mom left for Canada with her offspring and daddy went back to Jamaica.
You are quite correct. Old English citizenship laws - to which the founders based their NBC standards on - required BOTH parents to be NBC.
Unfortunately Mary trump was born in Scotland. So Donald Trump was and is ineligible to be president.