Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
Until a few years ago, natural born citizen was understood to mean not a naturalized citizen, and it still is by most people.
You do what you need to, there aren’t many people who agree with and I am one of those.
Have a good day.
You still have not addressed what the phrase natural born means historically or legally.
What people “think” or “feel” it means is not at issue.
The words, and the concept, have a legal and a historical meaning that has not been changed.
The path of least resistance is to go with the flow.
If you are a conservative, you want the truth, not what is convenient.
It matters not if few agree with me—the issue is the truth.
Since 1830, there have been four cases where the phrase “natural born” has been defined.
and it has been held to mean a citizen born of two citizen parents.
I hope you have a nice day as well
Really? Only until a few years ago?
Then why did Thomas Paine write in chapter 4 of The Rights Of Man in 1791 that "natural born citizen" meant not a "foreigner" or "half a foreigner?" Why did he write that a "foreigner" or "half a foreigner" did not have a "full natural or political connection with the country?"
It sounds like the understanding went all the way back to the ratification of the Constitution.
-PJ