You cannot answer a simple question??
What, EXACTLY, is the difference in terms between “citizen” and “natural born citizen”?
This is the third time I’ve asked and have yet to get any answer. Since there is the higher “natural born citizen” requirement for President, what do YOU say it means and how does it differ from “citizen” which was not a good enough designation according to our Founding Fathers?
Answer my simple question. Pick one of two below:
Rubio was born in the USA
Rubio was not born in the USA
Thank you.
Did my post at #66 help you at all?
In a nutshell, natural born = born in the U.S.A. [native born (jus solis)] + citizen parents [derived citizenship from parents (jus sanguinis)].
Neither Senator Barak H.Obama II nor Senator John S.McCain were eligible to serve as President.
“What, EXACTLY, is the difference in terms between ‘citizen’ and ‘natural born citizen’?”
Natural born citizens are exactly the subset of citizens that received their citizenship upon birth.
The Supreme Court’s majority opinion in U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark recognizes the term ‘natural born citizen’ as being derived from the English common law term ‘natural born subject’: “The term ‘citizen,’ as understood in our law, is precisely analogous to the term subject in the common law, and the change of phrase has entirely resulted from the change of government.”
The Court quotes British jurist A.V. Dicey on the meaning of the term: “’Natural-born British subject’ means a British subject who has become a British subject at the moment of his birth.’”