"Please define “natural born” as opposed to a “citizen of the United States”."
Tell us please, what exactly does “natural born” mean?
You can't, can you?
A citizen from birth, rather than through naturalization.
I did in FACT answer it to his satisfaction. At least he was satisfied with the answer. I really don’t think he’d want you speaking from him, but...
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.
If you read the entire paragraph is doesn’t say “a citizen of the United States” “period”. It says “a citizen..., at the time of the adoption of this Constitution.”
You are welcome to go back and read it again.
It doesn’t say you can be President if you are “a citizen of the United States”. It also doesn’t JUST say “natural born”.
Just in case you STILL can’t figure it out, I would define “natural born CITIZEN” (which is what the Constitution actually says), as one who has their U.S. citizenship established by birth. Whether it is by being born to TWO citizens (who were also born here), or by being born in the United States by two citizens whose citizenship has been established by other means.
In other words, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s children will be “natural born citizens”, but if a visiting dignitary’s wife has a child while in the U.S. on a visit, and the dignitary and his wife don’t want to be naturalized, then their child is NOT a “natural born citizen.”
Sorry that was so hard for you.