“The country where one is born, how accidental soever his birth in that place may have been, and although his parents belong to another country, is that to which he owes allegiance.”
Using this logic, children born abroad to American citizens should not be considered American citizens, but citizens of the country they were born in and denied entrance to the U.S. when the parents want to return home to raise their foreign born offspring. Also any child born of foreign parents in the U.S. should not be permitted to leave the U.S. with their foreign citizen parents as child belongs to the birthplace not the parents. Such nonsense...
“Using this logic, children born abroad to American citizens should not be considered American citizens, but citizens of the country they were born in and denied entrance to the U.S. when the parents want to return home to raise their foreign born offspring.”
That is why Congress had to pass laws to solve the situation. Those children are citizens by law, and some say they are also NBC, but that has been disputed. Still, McCain was allowed to run, so I don’t think we’ll see it disputed again...