You are DARN RIGHT I am using an “appeal to authority” -—
Birthers have become childish, stubborn pests without regard to the time and energy that they waste, and without regard to authority.
Birthers are not “constitutionalists”
Birthers are not “conservatives”
Birthers are Liberals and Anarchists without regard for current legal authority. The LAW is all about LEGAL OPINION and the crack pot, tin-foil-hat birthers have NO opinions of anyone, of any note, on their side.
"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."
If you don't like Article II of the Constitution, here are the only ways to change it: