“I think many do not agree with your contention that the meaning has changed, including the members of Congress who brought many bills up in the last 15 years trying to change the meaning of NBC to precisely what you are suggesting it has become. “
You are free to THINK whatever you like, but the FACT is that thousands, if not tens of thousands of human beings born abroad with one American parent have been granted the legal status of an American citizen over the last bunch of decades.
That is also true and granted is the correct word. They applied at the consulate or to the State Department and met the Naturalization Statute requirements in effect at the time of their birth and became citizens but ...are not NBC.
“You are free to THINK whatever you like, but the FACT is that thousands, if not tens of thousands of human beings born abroad with one American parent have been granted the legal status of an American citizen over the last bunch of decades.”
Yet to the main point, the Constitutional requirement for assuming the Presidency is a specific form, or quality of born citizenship. Mere born citizenship is NOT the requirement, but rather Natural Born Citizenship is. NBC, as understood by the Founders, being a pure, pedigreed if you will, 100% American citizen in nativity and lineage.
Recoiling from George III, who had German blood and used Hessian mercenaries during the Revolutionary War, The Founders were concerned that the highest office in the land be restricted to those that could be thought to be All American.
Restriction of that office to persons born and raised among their fellow countrymen by parents teaching them the history, character, values, mores, patriotism, fairness, and laws of the US is a reasonable idea incorporated in the Article II eligibility requirements. Even though the NBC requirement is not a 100% guarantee of the intended result it has worked quite well from the founding until 2008 when we ignored it in a mad rush to elect a PC “black” man of whatever stripe.
For the past 8 years we have suffered under the rule of a man not meeting the Article II requirements. Obama is a manifestation come true of the Founders fears. Why would we want to travel that road again? Failure to enforce our own Constitution is leading to others who would ignore it in search of their own personal power. Do we want more of the same that we got with Obama? I say no! What do you say?