Sorry folks no Obama,Rubio or Jindhal..SCOTUS was quite clear on the subject Minor v. Happersett 1875 note the use of the plural both 'Parents"
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
88 U.S. 162
Minor v. Happersett
Additions might always be made to the citizenship of
the United States in two ways: first, by birth, and second, by
naturalization. This is apparent from the Constitution itself, for it
provides [n6]
that "no person except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the
United States at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, shall be
eligible to the office of President," [n7]
and that Congress shall have power "to establish a uniform rule of
naturalization." Thus new citizens may be born or they may be created by
naturalization.
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. Some authorities
go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction
without reference to the citizenship of their [p168]
parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the
first. For the purposes of this case it is not necessary to solve these
doubts. It is sufficient for everything we have now to consider that all
children born of citizen parents within the jurisdiction are themselves
citizens. The words "all children" are certainly as comprehensive, when
used in this connection, as "all persons," and if females are included
in the last they must be in the first. That they are included in the
last is not denied. In fact the whole argument of the plaintiffs
proceeds upon that idea.
Read the entire decision: > http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0088_0162_ZO.html
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