To become a citizen of the United States you have to either a “natural born” citizen OR a “naturalized” citizen. It’s clear. Regardless of what anyone says or believes. There are only TWO CHOICES! Period! It’s that simple.
You either became a U.S. citizen by birth (natural born), or by formally application process!
No. Natural born Citizen is required. As it now stands, one American citizen parent at birth gives you NBC status, regardless of where born.
Way back when (McCain, Panama?) I read that in the old days if a child were born of English parents on French soil, he was a “natural born” subject of the King, and that our concept of “natural born” citizen comes from that part of English law. Also, this was what the founding fathers thought everyone understood.
Most of the quiet discussion I’ve seen since then seems to correspond to that. More heated discussions have been all over the map.