which attack was that?
enlighten me.......
His run for President, if we take his claim that he was eligible at face value, then we must realize that the qualifications for Natural Born Citizen (A) that there is no requirement to be born in the United States, and (B) that it may be passed down by one citizen parent only. As a result, in this model, any child of a NBC is an NBC as well… which means if John Tyler (the first NBC President) had a son who moved to Europe and married, say, the Crown Princess of England then their heir would be eligible for the Presidency as well as being in line for King of England.
This is exactly the situation that the founders wanted to prevent by the natural born citizen clause:
Permit me to hint, whether it would not be wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government, and to declare expressly that the Command in chief of the American army shall not be given to, nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen.— John Jay, in a letter to the presiding officer of the Constitutional Convention (George Washington), dated 25-Jul-1787.