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Natural Born Citizen - The definition of the term, “natural born citizen”, was entered into the Congressional record of the House on March 9, 1866, in comments made by Rep. John Bingham on the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which was the precursor to the Fourteenth Amendment. He repeated Vattel’s definition when he said: “[I] find no fault with the introductory clause, which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen. . . . ” — John A. Bingham, (R-Ohio) US Congressman, March 9, 1866 Cong. Globe, 39th, 1st Sess., 1291 (1866), Sec. 1992 of U.S. Revised Statutes (1866).

Thank you for again showing that “natural born citizen” is simply another term used for those who acquire citizenship at birth.

This man used “natural-born citizen” while the 14th amendment says “citizen”... “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States”

There is NO class of people who are citizens from birth yet not ‘natural-born citizens’.

Notably, the 14th amendment has the 2 classes of citizens - born or naturalized. That’s it, nothing more!