Yes, I agree that there are only two classes of citizens: native and naturalized. If one is not naturalized, then one had to be native.
However the State Department in their Foreign Affairs manual says that one who is a natural born citizen by statute does not mean one is such for Constitutional purposes.
That leaves me with the impression that our own government is unclear whether or not all native citizens are eligible for the presidency. Thus my position that we need a SCOTUS ruling to settle the matter once and for all.
Do you have a link to this? Agency law is a twisted area and what it appears to say, may not be what it is saying. I am curious as to the meaning “by statute”.
parsy, who has had to learn this the hard way