A natural-born citizen can still voluntarily relinquish their own citizenship.
They can let it go, but people cannot pretend it wasn't given to them by God.
You can do the same with your life, but it was still given by God.
Perhaps it would be best to lay off the hyperbole, lest your arguments be tainted with absurdities.
My argument is not tainted with absurdities. I have spent quite a long time looking for the origins of "natural born citizen", and what I have discovered is that it derives from "natural law."
Now you may not know what is "natural law", and I wouldn't blame you, because I didn't know what it was either when I started looking into this issue, but "natural law" was the concept that God's workings in the affairs of man could be discerned by a logical mind with a few basic assumptions.
While the concept is forgotten today, it was the dominant philosophy of the time period in the 18th century. Some examples of the philosophers of "natural law" were Samuel Rutherford, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and so forth.
If you read their essays and follow their logic, their arguments all revolve around the rights of man as given by God.
"QUESTION I. "Whether government be by a divine law, ..... 1How government is from God. — Civil power, in the root, immediately from God.
QUESTION II.
Whether or no government be warranted by the law of nature, ... 1Civil society natural in radic€, in the root, voluntary in modOj in the manner. — Power of govern- ment, and power of government by such and such magistrates, different. — Civil subjection not formally from nature's laws. — Our consent to laws penal, not antecedently natural. — Government by such rulers, a secondary law of nature. — Family government and politic different. — Govern- ment by rulers a secondary law of nature ; family government and civU different. — Civil govern- ment, by consequent, natural.
QUESTION III.
Whether royal power and definite forms of government be from God, . . 3That kings are from God, understood in a fourfold sense. — The royal power hath warrant from divine institution. — The three forms of government not different in specie and nature. — How every form is from God. — How government is an ordinance of man, 1 Pet. ii. 13.
Samuel Rutherford was one of the writers of natural law cited in the debates of the US Constitution. So was Vattel.
My argument is not tainted with absurdities. I have spent quite a long time looking for the origins of "natural born citizen", and what I have discovered is that it derives from "natural law."
As this Act of the State of Maryland predates the Constitution, it made Lafayette a natural born citizen and eligible to be President of the United States.
17 Maryland Laws 378 (1784)
CHAP. XII.An ACT to naturalize major-general the marquis de la Fayette and his heirs male for ever.
WHEREAS the general assembly of Maryland, anxious to perpetuate a name dear to the state, and to recognize the marquis de la Fayette for one of its citizens, who, at the age of nineteen, left his native country, and risked his life in the late revolution; who, on his joining the American army, after being appointed by congress to the rank of major-general, disinterestedly refused the usual rewards of command, and sought only to deserve what he attained, the character of patriot and soldier; who, when appointed to conduct an incursion into Canada, called forth by his prudence and extraordinary discretion the approbation of congress; who, at the head of an army in Virginia, baffled the manœuvres of a distinguished general, and excited the admiration of the oldest commanders; who early attracted the notice and obtained the friendship of the illustrious general Washington; and who laboured and succeeded in raising the honour and the name of the United States of America: Therefore,
II. Be it enacted, by the general assembly of Maryland, That the marquis de la Fayette, and his heirs male for ever, shall be, and they and each of them are hereby deemed, adjudged, and taken to be, natural born citizens of this state, and shall henceforth be entitled to all the immunities, rights and privileges, of natural born citizens thereof, they and every of them conforming to the constitution and laws of this state, in the enjoyment and exercise of such immunities, rights and privileges.
Damn. French Lafayette was made a natural born citizen before the Constitution was Framed or adopted. There just ain't no telling what a sovereign state might do. And, as Maryland did this before the Constitution....
"No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President...."
Lafayette was a citizen, nay a natural born citizen, before the adoption of the Constitution. How, in 1784, did those turtles know to use that exact phrase?