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This really does leave him open to blackmail.

Yep.

If you ever had hold a Top Secret security clearance, you'd know the government looks DEEP in your background, to see if you have any skeletons in the closet.

They'd check your criminal record, to see if you might have committed acts that show a pattern of deceit.

They'd check your credit, to see if you might be a target of bribery.

And they'd also check for other things, such as marital infidelity and falsified records -- to ensure you won't be blackmailed by the enemy to become their servant, or worse yet, their spy.

The problem is that people elected to office are NOT subject to such screening...

Fact: We know that the Framers recognized a difference between US citizens and natural born citizens.

We don’t need to look FOR the definition of natural born citizen. We need to be looking AT the definition of a US citizen (which would be what is required to serve as Senator or Representative but isn’t quite enough to let one serve as President).

14th Amendment:

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

This gives the SAME type of citizenship to those who are either:

1. BORN in the United States

2. NATURALIZED in the United States

A child BORN on US soil (think Wong Kim Ark) receives the same type of citizenship as someone that is naturalized.

Either of the could serve in the Senate or House but NEITHER can serve as President because they are only citizens. Not natural born citizens. They receive the same type of citizenship in two different ways.