:: I AGREE with the proposed new lede, with one amendment: remove the words "Many recent" from thre phrase "Many recent eligibility lawsuits have been dismissed in lower courts". 

 :: I DISAGREE with one user's attempt to insert "citizen at birth" as the synonym for "natural born citizen." I AGREE with Kungfuw's reasons for exclusion.  The lede makes no other identifications of "natural-born" with any other words or phrases, and that is proper. The consensus of legal scholarship is also that NBC is the same as the Common-Law definition.  That is also not appropriate in the lede, no matter how much I agree with it. One does not define one term by another.  

 :: The lede should also not be used for the purpose of declaring one or more candidates eligible.  I assert that user Weazie is attempting to do so.  I strongly request the intervention of moderators. 

 ::I believe we have consensus of Richwales, Kungfuw, Jc3s5h, and myself for the new lede. '''.