Do you honestly think it would have been a problem? Because the Constitution clearly prohibits funding the Army for more than two years at a time.To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
IOW, the deployment/stationing abroad that is so commonplace now would have been unthinkable then.
By their own history, the Framers must have defined Natural Born Citizen to mean something beyond “born in the borders of the United States.”
I agree, but this is the question.
“IOW, the deployment/stationing abroad that is so commonplace now would have been unthinkable then.”
And so was 1 day travel half way around the world. At that time in history, an American family could be in Europe, get pregnant and still not make it back to the 13 states in time to give birth.
Given soome of the FReeper opinions on this thread, our service members could very welll give birth while stationed oustside the borders and their child would NOT be eligible to run for POTUS. Yet, under current laws, illegal immigrants can sneak across the border and give birth and her child WOULD be eligible to run for president.
And the Gods of the Copy Book headings with Terror and Slaughter return.....