“Perhaps you are just worried he will point out the things you state as fact are nowhere to be found in the Constitution, like having Citizen parents, or other that if if he were Muslim that this would not make him ineligible. ”
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Sigh!!!! Just more evidence of the dumbing down of America. From Article II of the Constitution:

“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;”

The grandfather clause is put in there for an obvious reason. The founders could not qualify as natural born since their parents were not citizens of the United States at the time of their birth. There was no need to define what natural born citizen was since it was well known to the writers what it meant. If natural born citizen meant the same as citizen, the clause would have just read :

“No person except a Citizen, shall be eligible to the Office of President”

There would be no need for the distinction between the two. There is further evidence of what the founders knew to be the meaning of natural born. You just have to look at the Naturalization Act of 1790 – written by the same people that wrote the Constitution :

“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,:

That any alien, being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof…… and thereupon such person shall be considered as a CITIZEN of the United States. And the CHILDREN of such persons so naturalized, dwelling within the United States, being under the age of twenty-one years at the time of such naturalization, shall also be considered as CITIZENS of the United States. And the CHILDREN OF CITIZENS of the United States, that MAY BE BORN beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as NATURAL BORN CITIZENS”

Broken down it is quite simple.

Any alien residing within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years may become a CITIZEN

The children already alive at the time of the naturalization of their parents, become a CITIZEN

Children BORN to US CITIZENS ( in this case and the purpose for this act – out of the jurisdiction of the United States ) become NATURAL BORN CITIZENS , not CITIZENS. There is clearly a distinction between the two. The key being that BOTH parents are US citizens.

Further proof can be seen from the Naturalization Act of 1795, which among other things removed the words “natural born” from children born overseas.

“And be it further enacted, that the children of persons duly naturalized, dwelling within the United States, and being under the age of twenty-one years at the time of such naturalization, and the children of citizens of the United States born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, shall be considered as CITIZENS of the United States”

The reason the 1795 Act was passed was because during the 1790’s many in the U.S. were concerned that the growth in the number of political refugees, particularly those driven out by the revolution in France, might prove harmful to American liberty. Also in this act of 1795, we see the importance of complete allegiance to the United States for all people naturalized, as this is the first appearance of the oath of allegiance “to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whereof such alien may at that time be a citizen or subject.” This reinforced the fact that the founding fathers wanted a “natural born citizen” to have no other claim to his loyalty except that of the United States of America. At that time, British ships were boarding American ships and seizing American citizens and conscripting them into the British navy if they were born overseas in the lands under British rule. By British law, they were British Subjects – even if their parents were American. This act removed the words natural born from children born overseas of American parents, so that no other potentate could lay claim to this person, and thus establish a presence of influence in the Executive Branch. It was the intent of the Founding Fathers to“naturalize at birth” these children, but not give them the status natural born citizens.

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