[PJ-Comix]

What happened is that a lot of morons got hung up on the term "Native born citizen." Here is what the deal is. ALL "native born citizens" are also natural born citizens. However, not all natural born citizens are native born citizens (i.e. born in the geographic USA). An example of the latter is John McCain. He is a natural born citizen because both of his parents are U.S. citizens. However, he is not a native born citizen because he was born in Panama. Another such example was George Romney. Born in Mexico but both parents were U.S. citizens. So he was also a "natural born citizen" but NOT native born.

An oatmeal cookie to the next idiot who posts that Marco Rubio is native born but not natural born citizen. If you are native born in the USA then you MUST also be natural born.

[SatinDoll]

The definition of “natural born citizen” was decided on by the Supreme Court in Minor vs. Happersett.

ONLY NATIONAL LAW MAKES BINDING PRECEDENT.

The Supreme Court’s definition of the natural-born citizen clause in Minor vs. Happersett is not common law, natural law, or international law. Vattel is not cited by the Supreme Court in Minor. And Vattel does not make US law. The Court’s holding in Minor is national law. It is United States law.

Those other sources may have been consulted, but when the Court held that Virginia Minor was a citizen under Article II, Section 1, clause 5, because she was born in the US of citizen parents, that definition became national law. Therefore, Minor supersedes all other sources on this point. It is a direct Constitutional interpretation and definition.

THE EXPRESS LANE TO NATURAL BORN CLARITY, Leo Donofrio, esq.
http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/the-express-lane-to-natural-born-clarity/

[Las Vegas Ron]

I don't recall the exact date on this, but it is from late 1700's Britannica, definition of Native. Note the two parent requirement: