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rangerssuck wrote:

Exactly how would you define "natural born?"


It is not my paygrade to define it so I'll defer to the Supreme Court's
words in Minor v. Happersett;

'The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born
citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law,
with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were
familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of
parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth,
citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as
distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further and
include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without
reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there
have been doubts, but never as to the first."


As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first.

The Supreme Court acknowledges that there is no doubt that children born
to citizens are natural born citizens. They also acknowledge that
children born to aliens or foreigners give them doubt.