[Ladysforest]

I don’t believe that you are correct about this. I had read extensively on the topic, and the citizenship of a bastard child is unconditionally the same as the mothers. Even in ancient English laws. It is a MODERN thing to extend the unwed fathers citizenship to a bastard child, by choice of the parents.

[Just mythoughts]

The topic is not ‘citizenship’ but ‘natural born’ US citizenship. Our founders were old ‘white’ men, remember... it was not until the 19th amendment where woman was given the right to vote. The ‘natural born’ clause requirement was placed in our Constitution, from the get go. The ‘natural born’ clause came from Vattel not English law.

http://birthers.org/USC/Vattel.html