Originally Posted by dutchdivco

There is an argument to be made that 'we' should 'follow' the Constitution, as it is 'supposed' to be the 'Law of the Land'.
However, as has been pointed out in numerous posts, on DIFFERENT issues, 'we' aren't, and haven't been for some time!
Now, as I've ponted out before; even if we assume the framers meant not only the candidate, but his parents had to be born in the U.S., at the time the Constituion was written they had NO way to 'verify', or know for sure, WHO the father was; they were taking 'Mom's' word for it.
Now, with DNA testing, we COULD require not only birth certificates but DNA testing from candidates.
But technology creates as many new problems as it solves; what about 'surrogate' mothers; suppose the women who carried and gave birth is a citizen, but not the 'egg donor', or vice versa? What about a child born of a single Mom, who is impregnated by artificial insemination?