“A lower court ruling in 1844? That’s all you have?”
No, that isn’t. WKA followed the exact same reasoning, as would any other court. Why? Because it is irrefutable. When the colonies became states, they changed their laws to replace the phrase NBS with the phrase NBC - thus there is no doubt that they considered NBS = NBC. They simply revised their laws so that it had citizen in place of the word subject.
A few years later, when writing the Constitution, they used the legal phrase NBC. Thus, in the absence of proof to the contrary, a court must assume they meant the same as had been meant by the phrase NBS.
NBS was a phrase with an established legal meaning, which carries over AS THE FOUNDER’S ORIGINAL INTENT into NBC.
And at an absolute minimum, it shows that 164 years before Obama’s election, courts concluded that a natural born citizen could have two alien parents, and could in fact be raised from a baby overseas and remain a natural born citizen.
And Lynch was never overturned, and cited by the US Supreme Court in Wong Kim Ark.
Still pushing your ridiculous common law argument I see. You bore me.