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Because what I say means nothing. My say is an opinion. What the Supremes say is the final interpretation of the law.
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edge919 explains the SCOTUS understanding of the definition. To which, I would add that there were other cases in which SCOTUS reminds us who a "natural born Citizen" is (ex. in Venus).
Not to mention, the father of the 14th Amendment stated the definition in the peoples house a number of times during the debates on the 14th. No other Congressman objected or offered a different definition. They all knew exactly what the definition was. Born in the sovereign territory, to 2 citizen parents owing allegiance to no other country.
I did a thorough word search of the U.S. Constitution and every amendment and not once did the word “parent” or “parents” appear. I did note that Article 2, Section 1, Paragraph 5 states:
“No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”
No mention of parents. There are two kinds of citizens in this country. Natural born (which means in common usage “of the soil”) and those made citizens by other powers, i.e., naturalized. To read anything else into this is to express an opinion, not a fact.
How would one know the citizenship of a parent anyway? What a birth certificate states for father may or may not be true for starters. I’d say a very large percentage of the population are bastards., i.e., born out of wedlock, etc., a product of a sperm bank, adopted, etc. I could go on but you get the picture. What proof is there that our parents are who they say they are? The only sure thing is that a hospital issues the proof that YOU were born there. That’s it!