“And, by the way, I am not “ignoring” the provisions of Article II. I am honoring them as they have been defined by Congress. Your definition is, for the present, your own. “
My definition????? Read Minor v Happersett, Elg, and other court decisions both USSC and various Administrative courts.
NBC = native born to citizen parents.
NBC has no cachet in the US except as an eligibility requirement for the Presidency. Although it is meant to weed out those who could have divided loyalties. In reality it is no great burden on the vast majority of Americans....would you say 95% of Americans were born on US soil to American citizen parents?
Yet people say Cruz, born in Canada to a Canadian/Cuban father is a US Natural Born Citizen......Its hard for me to keep from splitting my gut from laughing so hard at the thought. Does ideology blind people that much, even on FR? Apparently it does for some. Yet they call themselves big C Conservatives.......stop it, you’re killing me!
Thousands of people had the relevant facts in hand -- the Constitution's requirement or a "natural-born citizen" requiring two American citizens as parents and Obama's own confession in Dreams of My Father that his father was a Kenyan -- yet nobody raise a hand against his eligibility for the presidency.
Doesn't this suggest something rather profound to you? Like nobody took "natural born citizen" to mean what you think it means?