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To protect and defend the constitution in as oath all in government and the military swear to.... They do not take an oath to a man like Obama or an office like the presidency. Therefor, the most agree that meaning of the Constitution is very important. Right? The constitution was written by our founders who painfully debated every single word. AND to quote Rush.... "Words mean things" So therefore the original intent is not just a catch-all as you put it. But rather a window into how the framers of the constitution wanted to establish the union...... God Bless

And yet, those of you that hold that this is the original intent of all signers cannot point the relevant details in the constitution or any documents that can clearly remove this point from the debate as being totally settled.

And as others have pointed out, there were differences in opinion about this from some of the original founders.

So lacking any solid proof that all the founders/signers of the constitution believe as you do, that to be POTUS, both parents have to be US Citizens at the time of birth, and lacking any substantive and complete definition either in the US Constitution or US Laws whereby this issue can be put to bed(in either direction), basically, your position boils down, in all honesty, that you would have us believe that your opinion is settled constitutionally law, which by definition, it cannot be.

"""""your position boils down, in all honesty, that you would have us believe that your opinion is settled"""""

You misstate my position..... Even though I believe that the framers all new what they meant when they used both terms Citizen and natural born citizen in the came clause, because there are those like you who disagree, by definition it is not settled.

To clarify my position, I believe that it is time for the Supreme Court to stop rejecting cases placed before them and make a ruling that includes a clear definition of NBC. We need to document the intent of the framers..... This why our government was established with co-equal branches including checks and balances.