Lesson #4 - "THE QUALIFICATIONS OF THE PRESIDENCY"

As we see in the excerpt below, aside from birth in the country, "natural born" requires the parents to be citizens. Meanwhile, most of the "buzz" has been focused solely on the Birth Certificate issue, which is only one part of the story, and probably the less-important part.....

"The Qualifications of the Presidency"
The constitution requires citizenship by birth within the country, i.e. birth within the country, of parents who are not extra-territorial persons. Whether a natural born citizen who should become, by naturalization, a citizen of a foreign state, and who should subsequently regain citizenship of the United States, would then be eligible to the Presidency, is at least a question. A technical argument might be constructed to support the proposition that he would; but I think the broader principles of public law and political science would incline to the negative. The President is the representative of the interests of the country against foreign countries. His entire interests should be with his own country. Citizenship in a foreign state would be very likely to create ties which might divide his interests and his sympathies.

2 Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law, John W. Burgess, page 242, 1893.