I have been working around this subject for a long time now. I have decided to create a couple of visual aids to help explain how one cannot be a natural born Citizen if they are born to a foreign parent or in a foreign country. Feel free to share as you like. The quote at the top is the requirement as established in Art. II Sec. I Cl 5 of the Constitution of the United States. (1787) The quote on the side is the ONLY definition found in any law book of the time in which the Constitution was drafted. It is from  The Law of Nations, Or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the Conduct and Affairs of Nations and Sovereigns, By Emmerich De Vattel (1758) The quote on the bottom is from a letter penned by John Jay to George Washington. (25 July 1787). The top diagram depicts (L-R) a child born in the United States to two U.S. Citizen parents, and the resulting citizenship which is one of a child who has only allegiance to the United States as derived by birth locatio...

Originally posted on  Keep it simple stupid! | Natural Born Citizens and why some are ineligible to be POTUS. (petesresearchonnaturalborncitizenship.blogspot.com)  On January 15th, 2015.     " 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." September 4, 1787.  [1]    The statement above is easily understandable, or is it?    In 2008 after receiving information about Obama being born to a Kenyan (British Subject) father, and possibly being born in Kenya, I thought “No way are they going to allow him to run for President”. I waited, and waited and then I found out that McCain was born in Panama. I was like “well he was born to a military Father ...