[Talisker]

From what I read, the “natural born citizen” clause, some say, seems to be somewhat ambiguous. I do not know, but it apparently is a matter that would have to be resolved by the Supreme Court.

Why not just look at what Obama voted it means? When the Senate affirmed that McCain was eligible to run for president, they passed a UNANIMOUS resolution that defined his "natural born citizenship" as including two American citizen parents.

This happened during the campaign when Obama was still a Senator - and he voted YES on it.

[livius]

That was because McCain was known to have technically been born outside of the US. He was born in Panama, although not in the base hospital, but had been registered as a US birth because his birth in the non-military hospital was due to some fluke (no OB department in the military hospital at that particular moment, IIRC). Therefore it was important to assert that both his parents were US born and his father was serving military.

[sometime lurker]

That’s a a Composition fallacy.

A resolution saying person x has y history and so meets z criteria doesn’t mean that y history is necessary to meet z criteria. It only means that person x has that history and meets the criteria. Otherwise you’d also have to stipulate that natural born citizens are only those born on military bases, or even limited to those born on military bases in the canal zone, all of which is also in the resolution.

[AlexW]

“including two American citizen parents.”
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I am not trying to start an argument here.
I am just asking for clarification.
I have read on here, as well as on other internet sites,
that the “natural born citizen” clause is ambiguous.
For example: “two citizen parents”
Both parents may be citizens, but one, or either both them were not born in the USA.
Others claim that not all presidents have had both parents
that were born in the USA.

The lefties made a big deal of McStain being born in an
off base hospital, not in the canal zone.
These are just a few examples of what I run in to.

What I was merely asking is there some official
documents that clearly states that BOTH parents MUST have been born on American soil?

I am just trying to get our ducks in a row, before running down a dead end road, or looking silly.