BUT CAN CONGRESS LEGISLATE A CONSTITUTIONAL CLAUSE?
by Glen Gilliland
What was the Founders' meaning of the term "natural born Citizen"?
(Apr. 10, 2011) — When I was a young boy in Mr. Hanson’s fifth grade civics class in the mid-60s, we learned that the definition of “natural born Citizen” was exclusively a person born on US soil of parents who are US citizens.
That has been the accepted definition of “natural born Citizen” for most of our history, except between the years 1790-1795, and 1971 to the present.
The first Congress passed the Naturalization Act of 1790:
And the children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens: Provided, That the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States…
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