[Nero Germanicus]

You are as entitled to your opinions as Jay, Ramsay, Swift, Kent and Rawles were to theirs but the fact remains that: “The Constitution does not say in words who shall be natural born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to determine that.”— Minor v. Happersett, 1874.

[Political Junkie Too]

“The Constitution does not say in words who shall be natural born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to determine that.”— Minor v. Happersett, 1874.

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Preamble

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

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The Preamble of the Constitution says "We the People of the United States, in Order to... secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

There is your constitutional definition of natural-born citizen right there at the beginning of the Constitution: "...ourselves [We the People] and our Posterity [future children]."

Natural born citizens are the children born of We the People, for whom the Constitution was ordained and established to secure. How else would they "secure the Blessings of Liberty" except by limiting the qualification for the highest office in the land to the citizen children of citizen parents?

Posterity means our children and our children's children.

The Constitution was ordained and established to secure the blessings of liberty to our children, their children, and their children's children, and so on and on.

Article II Section 1 Clause 5 codifies it.

-PJ

[Diego1618]

“The Constitution does not say in words who shall be natural born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to determine that.”— Minor v. Happersett, 1874.

And....that is very easily determined. It is only muddled thinking that would insist that foreign influences at birth could be an eventual good thing for the oval office.

The Constitution is very specific....."Citizen" or "Natural Born Citizen"......and after a time....only "Natural Born". "Naturalized" folks are never given the consideration to seek the office.

This is not rocket science and I'm afraid that the folks who are attempting to make it so may have ulterior motives.