That is at the center of the issue and was exactly their fear as it applied to the new Commander-in-Chief!
What language did the founders use to assure uncompromised loyalty of the nation's new commander-in-chief?
The perspective from Jay and Washington and the ENTIRE group of our founders - who, by the way had just fought an enormously bloody and costly revolution which was made even more difficult by "Americans" who were loyal to England - is apparent from both what is in the record and the fact the term NBC was included without debate:
The commander-in-chief's loyalty to the nation shall not be compromised by: a) birth outside of the U.S. in a nation that may later attempt to influence that loyalty, nor; b) birth to a non-citizen parent who may later be in a position to influence that loyalty.
The USSC has acknowledged that the highest form of NBC is two American parents and birth within the country. Any who argue the founders did not intend such qualifications with regard to the CIChave the burden of demonstrating the founders intended something else. There is no evidence the founders intended anything but NBC in its highest form.
Nor is this view of NBC anything new. For decades the U.S. educational system taught it was two parent citizens and birth in the U.S. The view no doubt originated with the writings of legal and legislative experts weel presented in the record.
Again, even the supposedly best NBC cases do not write an exclusion of children born American by blood, even if born on foreign soil. There is no authority for excluding jus sanguinis children from NBC status.
Peace,
SR
Yawn. Enough with the birtherism.