” I understand that no court has found a distinction between “Natural Born Citizens” and “persons physically born in the USA.” What I want know is if any court has explicitly ruled that these two things are identical?”
We should clarify that these would not be identical. Instead, what is identical (since these are merely equivalent legal terms of art) are ‘natural-born citizens’ and “citizens from time of birth”.
You could be a natural-born US citizen, even if born overseas, to US citizen parents, and the rights of citizenship in those cases is defined in US code.
Excellent info, thanks.
I was interested in the 14th Amendment issue - whether non-citizen parents could produce a natural born citizen merely by giving birth on USA soil - which is why I worded my question so narrowly.
Curious about your own views on “14.”
The historical annotation is pretty clear this Amendment was focused on former American slaves, not foreign citizens.
The all-inclusive interpretation found in Ankeny is, as I recall, just a modern footnote by one Supreme Court judge on a somewhat unrelated issue.