Citizenship is a form of inheritance a person receives from three sources: Father, Mother and Place of Birth.
"Natural Born Citizenship" was/is a term used to define the "purest" form of citizenship, where the person receives the same citizenship inheritance from all three sources.
For example, I am a Natural Born American citizen. My father and mother were both American citizens when I was born here in the USA.
It doesn't matter where my parents were born or where they came from. Only what they pass on to me matters and they can only give me what they have.
If they had both gone through melting pot and become American citizens, they pass on their American citizenship. If not, then they pass that on to me.
People may feel differently about each class, but Natural Born, naturalized and native born citizenship are legally equal to each other with one exception: Presidential eligibility.
You are a citizen, but you aren't eligible unless you are a Natural Born Citizen: born here to citizen parents. Purebred, native born American.
With a country full of true natural born citizens as strictly defined, there's no need to water down our Constitution and its definitions.
We once strived to live up to them. Now we are made to lower them to our lowest common denominator to be "fair" rather than exceptional as we used to strive to be.
No, she’s not right, and the owner of the site has cleared it up. See cripplecreek’s link in post #44.
Where in the constitution do you find “native born citizen”?
Yet this issue keeps coming up. We have had such massive immigration to this country in the last 40, 50 years, the issue is going to keep coming up. Of course, I have no doubt that it's only a matter of time before an illegal alien runs for President, and is allowed.