Jeff deserves no courtesy. He is a habitual and determined liar, and I have long since lost any respect for him.
Okay then, I'll now quote from a similar Constitutional analysis from a 2011 report prepared by the Congressional Research Office ...
Stop. Just Stop. I do not give a FLYING FIG for anything written in the modern political environment. You cannot garner a correct understanding by reading opinions from hundreds of years after the fact.
You want to quote something to me? Make it late 18th or early 19th century. Here is an example of what I mean.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Marshall.
Vattel, who, though not very full to this point, is more explicit and more satisfactory on it than any other whose work has fallen into my hands, says"The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives or indigenes are those born in the country of parents who are citizens.