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Sorry, no. If "born a citizen" equals "natural born citizen," the Constitutional Convention wouldn't have rejected Hamilton's "born a citizen" terminology for Presidential eligibility. But they did.
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I was talking about actual court rulings that denied a presidential candidate who qualified as a “Citizen of the United States at Birth.” That would need to be a post Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment (1868) ruling.
For example, on Obama: Purpura & Moran v Obama: New Jersey Administrative Law Judge Jeff S. Masin:
No court, federal, state or administrative, has accepted the challengers position that Mr. Obama is not a Natural Born Citizen due to the acknowledged fact that his father was born in Kenya and was a British citizen by virtue of the then applicable British Nationality Act. Nor has the fact that Obama had, or may have had, dual citizenship at the time of his birth and thereafter been held to deny him the status of natural born. It is unnecessary to reinvent the wheel here.
The petitioners legal position on this issue, however well intentioned, has no merit in law. Thus, accepting for the point of this issue that Mr. Obama was born in Hawaii, he is a Natural Born Citizen regardless of the status of his father. April 10, 2012