Schwarzenegger 2020: Equal Opportunity to Govern

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Anaraxes

The meaning is clear enough.

Well, it does have edge cases and at least some of them are within the power of Congress to decide, but obviously ridiculous interpretations (by either Congress or the courts) are unlikely to survive. There are very few credible interpretations other than 'born a citizen', though you could make an argument that it only applies to those born a citizen as prescribed by the Constitution (i.e. only those granted citizenship via the 14th amendment, rather than those granted citizenship by statute), or some other slightly limited case.