[cookcounty]

Two Presidents that come quickly to mind are Chester Arthur, who became President in 1881, born in Dunham Quebec, and Barack Obama had only one citizen parent. Someone should do an exhaustive study of all the Presidents (and Vice Presidents) and party nominees. I'll bet some interesting stories might emerge. International travel was far less common in earlier days, someone crossing the Atlantic with his family in tow and then returning would have been quite bizarre. Now it happens all the time. There are literally tens of thousands of such births every year, a good portion of the to US military families. The term is not clear in English common law, can sometimes mean natural born "by blood," other times "by soil."

So the courts may some day sort it out. With widespread travel and foreign assignments so prevalent, I'd be shocked if any court didn't take a fairly broad approach. To do otherwise, they'd have to go back to "original intent," which was to keep British loyalists from bringing their progeny, setting a stooge in the White House and re-taking America (as they almost did in the War of 1812).

[fooman]

Kind of like Barry Sotero and the current invasion...

[PJBankard]

Arthur is rumored to be from Canada, but is said to be from Vermont. There is no substantial proof that he wasn’t an NBC born in Vermont. It was only speculation. Obama is the only president that was elected and wasn’t eligible. The only reason he is in office is because of PC BS and our Congress and SC is a bunch of pansies.

[DiogenesLamp]

Chester Arthur, who became President in 1881, born in Dunham Quebec,

I think you are mistaken about this. If I recall properly, it was alleged that he was born in Canada, but it was not proven.

His problem was that his father was still a foreigner when he was born. (Irish, I think.)

This was only recently discovered by Leo Donofrio. He relates how he discovered this on his former blog. (you will have to read back a ways.)