This is one of FR’s strong suits—that we have people like you who read the Federalist Papers, understand them, and take them seriously. I learn so much on this site. The intent of the Founders is clear: they wanted an American born and bred to occupy the highest office of the land. Until Obama, this wasn’t much in dispute. Now his apologists claim any foreign national can find an underage American and spawn a child that fulfills the Constitutional requirements. PC has brought us to a very bad place.
>The intent of the Founders is clear: they wanted an American born and bred to occupy the highest office of the land. Until Obama, this wasn’t much in dispute. Now his apologists claim any foreign national can find an underage American and spawn a child that fulfills the Constitutional requirements. PC has brought us to a very bad place.<
Yes they did. It was clear that they wanted no one to be in such a position, equal to the other branches of government by themselves to have any loyalty to another nation.
It was such a problem, they had to grant themselves waivers of a sort to have presidents for the first few years since they understood that no one could actually fulfill that requirement by that time.
This is the argument at it’s base. If anyone could have been conferred a natural born citizen, by the mere presence of being born on American soil. why the waiver for so many presidents? Simply because it would take more than one generation to produce a Natural born citizen by definition.
It may have been PC, but just as guilty is the lack of education and forgetting the importance of these reasons. Certainly Obama and his decisions such as siding with the Muslim brotherhood (no doubt because of his Muslim upbringing) to be part of Egypt’s new leaders is a clear example of WHY this was such an important idea even today.