“Why did the framers NOT insert the words “of two parent citizens” after the term Natural Born Citizen?”
Aliens do not produce citizens, “natural born” or otherwise. Aliens produce aliens. See the Naturalization Acts of 1790, et. seq.
To be “natural born” you must be born to citizens. At the Framing, the citizenship of the wife followed that of the husband, hence two citizen parents.
Aliens do not produce citizens, “natural born” or otherwise. Aliens produce aliens. See the Naturalization Acts of 1790, et. seq.
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Are you serious? Unless a baby born on US soil belongs to ambassadors or foreign representative, he/she received an American birth certificate. A certificate of birth attesting to the fact that it was born on U.S. soil. A natural citizen. JUS SOLI.
A baby born overseas to American citizens is issued an American birth certificate by the American Consul in that country. A natural citizen. JUS SANGUINE.
EVERYONE else is a foreigner and requires a court to declare him or her a U.S. citizen. Naturalized citizen.
If the framers wanted a citizen parent rule for those born on U.S. soil, they would have mentioned it, don’t you think?
The Supreme Court (PERKINS v. ELG, 307 U.S. 325 (1939)
307 U.S. 325) quoted the following from a lower-court ruling in their findings:
“Young Steinkauler is a native-born American citizen. There is no law of the United States under which his father or any other person can deprive him of his birthright. He can return to America at the age of twenty-one, and in due time, if the people elect, he can become President of the United States;”
Young Steinkauler had alien parents! If this doesn’t define NBC I don’t know what else does?