1875 Supreme Court Decison, Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162, 168.

The pertinent text of the decision, concerning the issue of what constitutes a “natural-born” citizen, is as follows:

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.”

Note the key words, “all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also”

I have been slammed by some old friends simply by posting this text from a Supreme Court decision, which would indicate that our current POTUS does not satisfy our US Constitutional requirements of “natural-born” for the office of President, irregardless of where he was born. Obama’s father was a Kenyan, and as such was a British subject at the time of Obama’s birth.

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