“One universal point most all early publicists agreed on was natural-born citizen must mean one who is a citizen by no act of law. If a person owes their citizenship to some act of law (naturalization for example), they cannot be considered a natural-born citizen. This leads us to defining natural-born citizen under the laws of nature - laws the founders recognized and embraced.”
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No act of law “made” me a citizen — from the moment of my birth I *was* a citizen. That is not the same thing as an act of law that “makes” an alien into a citizen, and that is what that phrase means. It means that if one is not BORN a citizen, one cannot ever be a “natural born citizen.” It’s plain English, really. Drop “natural” if you want to, and see the words “born” and “citizen.” If you are “born” a citizen, in other words, a “citizen at birth,” then you are by definition a “born citizen” or “natural born citizen.” See http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/8/1401.html.
Lolz.
FAIL.
If one or both of your parents owed allegiance at the time of your birth, you are not a natural born citizen. If you were born in the United States you would be a NATIVE BORN citizen, but that fact alone does not make you a natural born citizen.