What is a "Natural Born Citizen"

People are confused because they don't understand the meaning of the relevant legal terms.  This chart that shows the elements for each of the constitutional terms that are used in the Constitution or in caselaw by the Supreme Court.

For each presidential candidate, they can put the factual history of their birth in the equation and see if they fit the bill to be president of the U.S. under Article II, Section 1, Clause 5, and the relevant federal law under U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), and Perkins v. Elg, 307 U.S. 325 (1939).  As you can clearly see, Obama is a U. S. citizen, but he's not a "natural born citizen" and, as such, is not eligible for POTUS, because his father, a Kenyan, was not a U. S. citizen.

Rep. John Bingham of Ohio, considered the father of the Fourteenth Amendment, confirms the understanding and construction the framers used in regards to birthright and jurisdiction while speaking on civil rights of citizens in the House on March 9, 1866:

" ... I find no fault with the introductory clause [S 61 Bill], which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents [plural, meaning two] not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen..." (http://americamustknow.com/default.aspx)

U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark's importance is that it is the first case decided by the Supreme Court that attempts to explain the meaning of "natural born citizen" under Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution.  Natural born citizen is similiar to the meaning of what a natural born subject is under Common Law in England.  That is one of the reasons why the framers specifically included a grandfather clause (natural born Citizen OR a Citizen of the United States, at the time of adoption of this Constitution).  The founding fathers knew that in order to be president, they had to grandfather themselves in because they were British subjects.  If they didn't, they could not be President of the U.S.  The holding in U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark states that Wong Kim Ark is a native born citizen.  If you look at the fact of Wong Kim Ark being born in San Francisco, CA, that holding is correct.

Perkins v. Elg's importance is that it actually gives examples of what a Citizen of the U.S. is; what a native born American Citizen is; and what a natural born citizen of the U.S. is.  A natural born citizen is a person who is born of two U.S. citizen parents AND born in the mainland of U.S.

An attorney, who practices in Missouri and the federal courts system and is also an accountant, observes that two plus two equals four (2+2 = 4).  There is no dispute in that.   Also, the similar logic applies with the meaning of what a natural born citizen of the U.S. is.  To be one as defined under U.S. Supreme Court case law and the English Common Law adopted by the U.S., you have to be born of two U.S. citizen parents AND born in the U.S. mainland.

Congress for 26 times has tried to change the meaning of natural born citizen as early as the 1790 Nationality Act and 26 times the bill has been defeated, repealed or ruled unconstitutional.  The meaning of what natural born citizen is what it is.  Regardless of what people in the mainstream media and in our federal government try to do, they still can't change the fact of the meaning of what a natural born citizen is.  What is occurring right now is straight up a coup de'tat seeking to destroy the Constitution as we know it.

Either way, three of the candidates, Obama (aka Soetoro), McCain, and Calero are not eligible under Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution.  Just like a residential purchase of a home is void if fraud in the inducement (where one party conceals a material fact that if people knew about it ahead of time, they would not enter into a residential purchase of a home), the same thing has occurred with the primaries and presidential election on November 4, 2008.  Because these three candidates (Obama (aka Soetoro), McCain, and Calero) were ineligible under Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution, then the 2008 presidential election and its results are void.  Regardless of what game of charades people in the mainstream media and people within our federal government are trying to pull.  That is a legal fact that is not in dispute.

Where did the U. S. Law originate?

Emmerich de Vattel was a Swiss jurist who attained world preeminence in international law.  This was primarily the result of his great foundational work, which he published in 1758.  His monumental work -- The Law of Nations --  applied a theory of natural law to international relations.  His scholarly, foundational, and systematic explanation of the Law of Nations was especially influential in the United States.

The Law of Nations was so influential in the United States because his principles of liberty and equality coincided with the ideals expressed in the U. S. Declaration of Independence.  In particular, his definitions in terms of Law governing nations regarding citizenship, defense of neutrality, and his rules for commerce between neutral and belligerent states were considered authoritative in the United States.

Many have said that de Vattel's Law of Nations was THE primary reference and defining book used by the framers of the U. S. Constitution.  It is really not possible to overstate the influence of de Vattel's Law of Nations as the primary reference book in the drafting of the U. S. Constitution.  Emmerich de Vattel's Law of Nations is almost beyond comparison in its value as a defining document regarding U. S. Constitution intent and interpretation.  The Law of Nations, or the Principles of Natural Law, published in 1758, is the first, and ONLY, definitive work the Framers of the U. S. Constitution used for the "Natural Born Citizen" phrase they placed within the Constitution.  It nails what the Constitution means by the "natural born citizen" phrase of Section 1, Article 2, of the U. S. Constitution.

It is amazing how perfectly, precisely, and explicitly what Emmerich de Vattel, wrote in paragraph 212, of book 1, chapter 19, of The Law of Nations entitled CITIZENS AND NATIONS, applies to the Obama FRAUD.  Quite clearly and explicitly it defines why Barry Soetoro, AKA Barack Heussein Obama Junior, can NOT possibly be qualified to be the President of the United States.  Obama MUST be disqualified from the office of President of the United States according to the U. S. Constitution Section 1 Article 2.

That is simply the only thing the Rule of Law could conclude.  All U. S. military personal and every other American under oath to protect and defend the U. S. Constitution will be duty bound to remove the fraudulent usurper.  This situation is REGARDLESS of votes, electors, media blackouts, high profile embarrassments, state court decisions, supreme court actions or inaction, birth certificates real or forged, or any other documents -- Obama can NOT LEGALLY BE The US President.

Emmerich de Vattel's explanation of "Natural Born Citizen" given in his 1759 benchmark work, used, and so often quoted, by the framers of the U. S. Constitution, makes the understanding simple, explicit, clear, definite, exact, precise, and strict.  In the CITIZENS AND NATIONS, paragraph #212, de Vattel says: "The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens.  As the society can not exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights.  The society is supposed to desire this, in consequence of what it owes to its own preservation; and it is presumed, as a matter of course, that each citizen, on entering into society, reserves to his children the right of becoming members of it.  THE COUNTRY OF THE FATHERS IS THEREFORE THAT OF THE CHILDREN."

No documentation is required.  Everyone should understand and KNOW the answer to the question of what country is the country of which Obama was a natural born citizen.  It is IMPOSSIBLE for Barry Obama, Barry Soetoro, or Barack Hussein Obama Junior, to be a natural born United States citizen.  Obama can NOT POSSIBLY be a "natural born citizen" of the U. S. because his father, Barack Hussein Obama Senior, was a Citizen of UK and/or Kenya.  Barack Hussein Obama Junior could be a natural born British Citizen or a natural born Kenyan Citizen.  Whether Barack Hussein Obama Junior was born in Hawaii, Kenya, or the moon, is irrelevant.  Birth documents, real or forged, are irrelevant.  Yes, even VOTES ARE IRRELEVANT.  Even Supreme Court action, or inaction, is irrelevant.  It is simply FRAUD and illegal for Barack Hussein Obama Junior to be put in the office of U. S. President by any means or reason.

This explains Obama's strange behavior in all of his documents and records being SEALED and why he has already spent over $800,000.00 saying NO DOCUMENTS WILL BE ALLOWED UNSEALED or made public.

Barack Hussein Obama Junior is at the epicenter of the greatest national disaster in the history of the United States.  NOTHING which Obama would ever do in the office of U. S. President could ever be anything other than FRAUD and ILLEGAL.