Third question: What does natural born citizen mean?
Born here of citizen parents
No possibility of being anything else
No foreign birth
No foreign parent(s)
No foreign citizenship(s)
Any other answer is not true to the original intent of the founders.
They did not intend to make the King of Thailand (born here) or Winston Churchill (American mother) eligible.
Why would Congress have bestowed honorary citizenship on Churchill if he was already a natural born citizen?
“Any other answer is not true to the original intent of the founders.”
So, you rule out the children of military officers serving abroad?
Can’t agree with that.
“Oxford Dictionary”, Second Edition
Volume X page 245
“1709 Act 7 Anne c. 5...The Children of all natural-born subjects, born out of the Liegeance of her Majesty...shall be deemed...to be natural-born Subjects of this Kingdom.”
That 1709 law was I believe what the founders would have gone by. Anne was Queen of England in 1709.
Lurkin, sadly, a remarkable number millennials don’t know after who our capital was named. Barack never claimed to be a natural born citizen. The media and “birther” campaign shut up those who didn’t know the truth,
By fat the legal citations between 1790 and 1820 were to Emer de Vattel’s Law of Nations. Control of the media and ignorance protected Obama. Obama and McCaskill tried to insure that foreign-born McCain was Obama’s opponent by submitting Senate Bill 2678 in February 2008. It was a bill to make the foreign-born children of military citizens into natural born citizens. It failed to pass. So they came back with Senate Resolution 511, “A Resolution that Senator John Sidney McCain is a Natural born Citizen”. Resolutions are not actionable.
The “Birther” agitprop will probably scare those who know he law, and there are lots who do. from correcting the misapprehension. Some, liee Obama’s and Cruz’ constitutional law professor, Larry Tribe. Larry is simply says that he believes in a living constitution.
When I was a child back in the fifties the term natural born was in common use. I recall seeing it in comic strips even and I mean it was used without reference to the constitution. For example someone might be referred to as a natural born hunter, fisherman, golfer or whatever. It was understood to mean that you were born to be that and whatever else you might be could not be in conflict with that. Hank Williams Jr. recorded a song titled “Born to Boogie”, he could just as well have titled it “Natural Born Boogier” but it would not have the same flow and would not have made as good a lyric.
This country and FR are now home to a lot of people who only imagine that they know what the term natural born means. It really means that there is no way that you could be any kind of citizen than an American citizen, there can be no question of whether you can claim some other citizenship, if you can then you CANNOT be a natural born American even if you are born an American citizen.
Clarify the true original status of the 14th Amendment.
It was written in the mid-1850’s and it was ONLY meant for the slaves & their children to get citizenship.
IT was NEVER meant for people from other countries to come into the USA when they were in labor & drop their child on American soil to get that child citizenship.
The use of the 14th Amendment has been totally twisted. It needs to stop. Those who are ‘citizens’ due to the 14th Amendment need to be sent back to the country of origin of their mother.