[ecinkc]

Here is one guy who at least comes close to satisfying your criteria. In 2008, Lawrence Solum, the John E. Cribbet Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law, wrote an article entitled "Originalism and the Natural Born Citizen Clause" that was published by the Michigan Law Review.

The original text of that article which, as of now can still be seen here, clearly indicates that the citizenship of both parents is a legitimate issue to consider when defining what we may regard as indisputably "natural born citizenship".

The same author later (when Obama's eligibility was increasingly disputed) back-tracked a bit, claiming that he wished he had merely mentioned one parent, but still I think he is an example of a living constitutional scholar that regards parental citizenship as relevant.

This was brought to my attention in great article on the NaturalBornCitizen blog here.

[BladeBryan]

“Here is one guy who at least comes close to satisfying your criteria. In 2008, Lawrence Solum, the John E. Cribbet Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law, wrote an article entitled “Originalism and the Natural Born Citizen Clause” that was published by the Michigan Law Review.

The original text of that article which, as of now can still be seen here, clearly indicates that the citizenship of both parents is a legitimate issue to consider when defining what we may regard as indisputably ‘natural born citizenship’.”

If you actually read Solum’s articles, you’ll find he never asserts that a native-born citizen must be born to one or two citizen parents. He’s talking about a much subtler issue.

“This was brought to my attention in great article on the NaturalBornCitizen blog here. (http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/the-scrubbing-of-america-how-professor-lawrence-solum-disgraced-himself-to-protect-obamas-eligibility/)";

I had guessed. The actual “scholars” behind this are Leo Donofrio and Mario Apuzzo, who are not really any such thing. As the literature of American law stated that the eligibility of native-born citizens was clear and settled, and as Black’s Law Dictionary defined the term “natural-born citizen” so that the native-born qualify, attorneys Donofrio and Apuzzo stood silent. In 2008 they became contrarians, but no one heard them say one word about it when all that was at stake was the principle.