You are entitled to you incorrect opinion, but please....answer this......
Why do the qualification requirements for the Presidency include the term "Natural Born Citizen"...... and the other elective offices do not?
I'll give you a clue. It's because the terms "Natural Born Citizen" and "Citizen" are different. If you recall....at the signing of the documents (1787) there were no Naturalized Citizens in residence yet. So right here.....reading the Constitution....we are informed there will be at least a minimum of three types of Citizenship.
Shortly after the ratification of the document.... people from abroad began applying for citizenship. They were then called "Naturalized Citizens" after taking the oath. But folks who were born in this country to these new citizens (prior to them taking the oath) were called "Citizens" only..... as their parents were not citizens at the time of their birth.
[Article II Section I] 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.
[Article I section II] No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
[Article I Section III] No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.
Bobby Jindal, Marco Rubio and Rick Santorum are not "Natural Born Citizens" because their parents were not Citizens at the time of their Births. George Romney (Mitt's father) was born abroad......but to U.S. Citizens living in Mexico who had not repudiated their citizenship.....so Mitt, according to the Naturalization Act of 1790.... is considered a "Natural Born Citizen" as was his father, George.
Here's the pertinent paragraph of the Act:
........And the children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens: Provided, that the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States
Here is another section of the Naturalization Acts of 1790:
.....And the children of such persons so naturalized, dwelling within the United States, being under the age of twenty-one years at the time of such naturalization, shall also be considered as citizens of the United States.
What does this mean? It means that children (born in this country) of alien parents are not "Natural Born Citizens".....they are just plain old citizens who cannot seek the office of the presidency. They can become Senators and Representatives.....and even Supreme Court Justices......but they gotta stay out of the White House!
As I said, one can ‘debate’ the issue all they want about what the “Natural Born” term could mean / might mean, but the laws of the country are clear as they stand now, and as they have stood since the “14th Amendment” was enacted.
There is NO ‘third class’ of LEGAL citizenship presently. There are only TWO!
You may not like it, others may not like it. It’s the way it is.