>> Only to people who live on the Internet and fancy themselves Constitutional scholars is it still relevant <<
A totally unfair remark. Our latter-day heroine in the NBC world, Dr. Orly Taitz, does not “live on the Internet.” During the daytime, she practices dentistry, and at night she is immersed deeply in the dusty old French-language tomes of Monsieur Vattel, the master explainer of natural-born citizenship.
The controlling law is the Immigration and Nationality Act, Pub. L. No. 82-414 § 301(a)(7), 66 Stat. 163, 236 (1952).
The foreign-born child is not a citizen if the citizen parent does not meet the requirements of this statute. The foreign-born child is not a
citizen by birth, the foreign-born child is a citizen by statute. A citizen by statute is a naturalized citizen.
http://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.htm?volume=66&page=163