“As this Congressional Research Service report sums it up (p. 25; see also pp. 16-21), the “overwhelming evidence of historical intent, general understandings [in 18th-century America], and common law principles underlying American jurisprudence thus indicate[s] that the most reasonable interpretation of ‘natural born’ citizens would include those who are considered U.S. citizens ‘at birth’ or ‘by birth,’ … under existing federal statutory law incorporating long-standing concepts of jus sanguinis, the law of descent.” In other words, there is strong originalist material to support the semantic signal that “natural born Citizen” identifies someone who is a citizen by virtue of the circumstances of his birth—as distinguished from someone who is naturalized later in life as a citizen.”
The CRS memo was nothing but disinformation propaganda by Jack Maskell to cover for Obama. It gave congressmen their talking points in case the people that they represented questioned Obama’s eligibility. Author Jack Maskell came up with a convoluted series of mendacious arguments that ignored 135 years of settled law and the meaning of the U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 on eligibility requirements. This happened right after “JustiaGate,” when Justia, a major legal research database vendor, was caught red-handed altering its records to delete references to the SCOTUS ruling on Minor V Happersett, the 1875 precedent on NBC.