It continues to amaze me how misinformed people are about citizenship issues. I was too. The difference is that I LOOKED IT UP. They just keep spouting off nonsense that they think they know to be true, and couldn't be more wrong. It gets repeated over & over and confuses even more people. Citizenship is very complicated. “Natural Born Citizen” is NOT. Article II, Section1, Clause 5. Born in one of the fifty states by two parents who were U.S. citizens at the time. Very simple. Born in Guam? Well if it ever comes up we can look into it. Marshall Islands? We can look it up then. Panama Canal Zone? That is a NO, we don't even have to look that one up. In a U.S. embassy overseas? Sorry! On board a U.S. Navy ship? Sorry! Born on the moon by two U.S. citizen astronauts who were also U.S. military officers, Sorry!
Born in Kenya, but my grammy said I was born in HAWAII and the dog ate my original birth certificate, and my dad wasn't a U.S. citizen and my mom wasn't old enough to convey U.S. citizenship to me ....... YES YOU CAN BE PRESIDENT
There are people who would deconstruct the issues discussed in the debates before the adoption of the Constitution, particularly the words ‘natural born citizen’. Their sense of a living document is one subject to change instead of historical understanding.