"Joe from Kokomo" wrote in message
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Joe from Kokomo wrote:
For the sake of this discussion, even if he was physically born in
Kenya (or Timbuktu or where ever), he would be an American citizen
by virtue of his mother being a citizen -- and nobody is
questioning her citizenship.

Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

Nope, the constituion says "natural born citizen", which has been
interpreted as being on US soil.

Interesting.

So you are saying that if a pregnant American citizen, for whatever
reason (vacation, airline attendant), gives birth overseas, that her
child would never be able to be president? Just because the mother
happened to be on vacation?

Is this an "interpretation" of the law or an actual law? If an
"interpretation" (opinion), is this opinion treated as being
cast-in-concrete, and as carrying the same weight of a hard and fast
actual law?

Natural born, by law, has nominally meant born of US parents (or parent, as
long as paternity/maternity has been established by the age of majority).
This includes children born of US parent(s) overseas.