[El Gato]

You can certainly make an argument that is what the framers intended, but it is incorrect to say Article 2 [section 1, clause 5] states it.

It's not a matter of their "intent", but rather their understanding of or put another way the meaning of "Natural born citizen". A subtle difference perhaps, but "intent" is essentially unknowable, unless one can find it stated somewhere, but even then the intent of one may not have been the intent of others. Meaning however is less "fluid", at least at a given point in time.

[csense]

I’m fine with that...