[nesnah]

“The modifier “natural born” is not used anywhere else in the Constitution...”

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Which would indicate it has a very special and significant meaning.....

[NonValueAdded]

Exactly ... are there not decisions on record that say EVERY word in the Constitution has meaning and those words are not to be dismissed lightly?

[Lakeshark]

AS the article explains, you won’t find it defined ANYWHERE, only barely hinted at.

[Elsiejay]

“Which would indicate it has a very special and significant meaning .... “

It does have such meaning, but explaining and debating it seems pointless. I do not know where Barack Hussein Obama was born, but do know that his father, if that be the claimed Kenyan native, was not ever a citizen of the U.S.A.

[highball]

“The modifier “natural born” is not used anywhere else in the Constitution...”

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Which would indicate it has a very special and significant meaning.....

Yes, of course it does.

The significance is right there in the text. It means that only people who are citizens from birth can aspire to the White House. The term is only used once because that eligibility is the one thing that naturalized citizenship can never bestow, and naturalized citizens are missing only that one "special and significant" privilege.

My problem comes when people claim that there is an additional, super-secret, hidden reason behind the term not actually supported by the text of the Constitution.