[Dilbert San Diego]

This subject of Natural Born citizenship comes up a lot on Free Republic.

Some Freepers say that both of your parents must have been a citizen at the time of your birth, for you to be a natural born citizen.

Other Freepers say that as long as you yourself were born in America that makes you a natural born citizen. Those Freepers argue that since such people are citizens without having to be naturalized, that means a they are natural born.

A thread the other day on this very subject had over 300 replies. People argued back and forth and presented evidence to support their point of view.

Some Freepers even said, why the heck are we even discussing this issue, because the courts are not going to stop any American born citizen from running for president.

There is no consensus on Free Republic as to what natural born citizenship means.

[Macho MAGA Man]

Did you know you posted the same post in post 45?

[Wallace T.]

The Supreme Court has opined only once on the subject of "natural born citizen". In Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1874), the Supreme Court stated, "The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also."

Chester Arthur, Barack Obama, and Kamala Harris do not qualify under the requirement that both parents be citizens. Neither does Ted Cruz, whose father was not a U.S. citizen at the time of his birth and who was born in Canada as well.