I really believe that what the Framers intended was that BOTH parents be BORN here and only the offspring of THOSE two parents born here are eligible for the presidency.
It’s just like the Hebrews wandering in the desert before they could enter the Promised land. Must rid the old generation who were not BORN Hebrews, lest they fall back. The FIRST generation of those who were born Hebrew, but whose parents remained were ALSO died off. The SECOND generation BORN of THOSE parents would have been considered “natural born” Hebrews.
Only then were they permitted to cross over the River Jordan.
It is only logical.
The Framers were well versed in the history of the Hebrews and they understood the concept. I think it never occurred to them that we would become so UNEDUCATED that this would even be a problem. They expected us to understand what they understood.
IMO the meaning was not lost. It frosts me that Obama is a Constitutional Scholar, he KNEW that what he was doing was wrong. Perhaps it was an intellectual exercise that went too far, or perhaps it was fraud. Only he knows that answer, but to the law, its fraud, and to others that participated, its treason.
I believe we're witnessing the effects of the enormous chasm of difference in basic education and the simple meanings of words that has built up over the centuries.
The Democrats could never have gotten away with something so brazen as the election of a man with one British parent a century ago. Even the most uneducated in the voting population of that era understood that their President had to be an American citizen who was born to parents who were themselves, citizens of this country.
As I've said before, if the Framers were alive today, they'd tell us that the second American Revolution is at least 75 years overdue.