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.
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.
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.
Clear and unambiguous. No definition of the word is needed.
Congressmen and Senators have to be Citizens for x number of years. Natural born Citizens are Citizens since they were born, and Statues not required.
Founders grandfathered everyone cause you could not restrict the office to baby’s and children for the first 35 years of the republic
The endless arguments and the case law that exists contradict this assertion. One person who belives your assertion is our own Freeper, Lurkinanloomin. He is wrong, of course, and quite confused in his thinking. What he is asserting is really what he believes is ought to be. He has a right to his opinion but he doesn't have a right to demand that his opinion become Constitutional and the law of the land. Only the courts can do that, or a Constitutional Amendment could make all of the arguments moot. The courts have decided without saying so that this is a political question and they intend to stay out of it. Politics is messy and this argument will continue in the messy fashion that we have. Before long, we will have a Presidential candidate who was born of a non citizen mother, with an natural born American father who donated to a sperm bank. Take your pick of where the birth occurred.