Please define “natural born” as opposed to a “citizen of the United States”.
“Please define “natural born” as opposed to a “citizen of the United States”.”
The entire paragraph says:
“No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States. “
Natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at, the time of the adoption of this Constitution...
The second part of that (or a citizen..at the time...) allowed for a President to be elected from the body of people that were alive before the United States became the United States.
Hope that clears it up for you.
The Governor of California is a Citizen of the United States, but he's a naturalized citizne, born in IIRC, Austria of Austrian parents. He's not natural born.
Hillary Clinton, OTOH, is a also a citizen, but she was born in Illinois and thus is a natural born citizen.
It gets a little gray around the edges when one is talking about folks, like "Null and Void" who were born overseas, but both of whose parents were US Citizens, and in his case at least one of which was serving in the US Military at the time. That sort of Gray Area, also applies to John McCain, since he was born while his father was stationed at Coco Solo naval base in the Panama canal zone. Howeve his birth certificate, which he has released, shows that he was born in Colon Panama, which is adjacent to that now closed US Navy facility. (However there is evidence, and surely his mother knows for certain, that he was nonetheless actually born on the Naval base, possibly in their quarters. (Home births were not tha unusual in the late 1930s)