This has to be settled because it’s going to come up again when an *anchor baby* wants to run for president.
I don't dispute your prognostication regarding an attempt at some point by an "anchor baby" to run for the presidency if this is left unresolved. That problem however, is just another facet of why the constitutional crisis that we are already in needs to be resolved: the issue of potential for divided loyalties in the Executive is one of extremely grave concern to the security of the Republic and the rule of law.
The issue of presumed undivided loyalty is far more important than place of birth, though that Minor detail (birth on the nation's soil) is also a NBC criteria that has SCOTUS precedent backing it as part and parcel along with having two citizen parents.
Bill Richardson ran for president in 2008. Nobody challenged his eligibility.
“This has to be settled because it’s going to come up again when an *anchor baby* wants to run for president.”
Yep when they try to run Marco Rubio.
This is going to have to be settled because the names “Marco Rubio” and “Bobby Jindal” are floating about as Romney running mates. Neither of them is the child of American citizens, not natural-born citizens. There is also NO legal requirement for a potential candidate to prove that he or she is a natural-born citizen, and no definitive definition under the law of what a natural-born citizen actually IS.
We can no longer assume that traditional American cultural values of honesty and telling the truth exist here as they did for so long; when a man’s word was his bond and a deal could be sealed with a handshake. I’m sure no one ever dreamed that something like Barack Obama could be foisted off on an unsuspecting American public, and allowed to squat in the White House...THE PEOPLE’S HOUSE.