Who is a Natural Born Citizen of the United States of America

Natural Born Citizen

It is NOT Obama. The references are all here for anyone who wishes to see. Clear cut and decisive.
We KNOW Obama's father was Kenyan. This is not disputed.
Therefore we KNOW Obama is not A Natural Born Citizen as required to be president of the United States Of America.




A "Natural born citizen" - the most crucial concept of the moment in America - is confusing (and deliberately confused) so much that Internet searches deliver a mess. This concept is used in the Constitution of the US (Article II, Section 1) as a precondition of presidency, being clearly distinguished from ordinary citizenship. Yet it has never been defined in the Constitution and later codes. Why? Because it had been self evident in the time when the Constitution was written, reaffirmed in the then contemporary encyclopedia "The Law of Nations" (1758) by Emerich de Vattel.

In it (chapter 19, §212), the concept "Natural born citizen" is based on a twofold criterion: both parents must be the citizens, and the birth must take place in the concerned country. The last precedent when such a criterion was applied was the Senate resolution 511 in 2008, when Sen. McCain was acknowledged a natural born citizen.

Often "Natural born citizenship" is confused with §1401 of the US Code "Nationals and citizens of United States at birth". Although the words sound similar, §1401 defines only ordinary citizenship including such shallow as that of anchor babies (born to illegal residents of guests of the country, §1401(a)).

The Constitution clearly and explicitly excludes ordinary citizenship for presidency. If it also defined the "Natural born citizenship" as clearly and explicitly, there would be no reasons for confusions. These confusions emerge in a general trend of erosion of the basic constitutional concepts (inconvenient for contemporary progressives).

Fortunately there exists (at least) one original US document defining the "Natural born citizenship" according to Emerich de Vattel which does have legal binding. This document is the actual text of the FIRST CONGRESS in 1790 (see below).

Other arguments in favor of the definition according to Emerich de Vattel are the following. The Framers (in their correspondence) explicitly wished to exclude dual loyalty, and explicitly required that the US citizenship of the president be something more than ordinary citizenship (and more than their own). After all, any one can acquire an ordinary US citizenship in some point of one's life, and the Framers clearly excluded this kind of citizenship. On the contrary, the Natural Born Citizenship cannot be acquired: it may be only inherited. What else than the definition of Vattel could the Framer possibly mean? After them all the presidents (except the current one) did satisfy this definition, demonstrating continuity of the meaning "Natural born citizenship" consistent with that of Vattel.