>>> Not all babies of soldiers are born on base. Thousands aren’t over a few years. What about doctors, ministers, scientists, emergency aid workers, travelers, anyone working toward a greater humanity and partnered overseas for awhile, etc... etc... ????
Well, keep in mind we are talking about qualifications for the highest office in the nation... and yet here we are talking about it as if it should be every American’s right to be president.
Surely, many are born overseas, or are born to 1 or more parents who are not citizens at the time of their birth who WOULD be loyal 100%... but how many of those would want to, let alone have the leadership skills, intelligence, etc to make it through the rigorous path to get there?
No doubt that the founder’s original intent would naturally weed out candidates that would otherwise make great presidents.... but it was not their objective to be fair. The objective was to prevent foreign governments from gaining influence or power through our elective process.
Without birthplace, 2 parents with the intent to groom a presidential plant could easily gain citizenship and move back to their country of origin and have a child eligible to be president who grew up in a foreign land.
Without dual parental citizenship, the 2 same parents could simply move to the US, have the baby, and again move back to their country of origin and raise the same child.
It would not take many years of this practice in mass effort by many individuals of many countries to have a world full of people who would eventually be eligible to run for president of the US.
Requiring both parents to be citizens as well as birthplace in the US, combined with residence requirements is the highest reasonable level of scrutiny that is possible... and the importance of that office requires it.
Except there is already precedence that your requirements are not being met. Let’s just say for argument sake that the current President was born in Hawaii. His father was not a citizen. His mother at the time could not legally transfer citizenship (reside in the U.S. for a total of 10 years prior to birth of the child with FIVE of the years after the age of 14.) to him. She was 18, missed the criteria by a year.
Yet here he sits. Untouchable. Hell, the current President is not even a citizen.