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Exploring the common-law origins of citizenship, the court observed that "new citizens may be born or they may be created by naturalization" and that the Constitution "does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens."
Under the common law, according to the court, "it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also.
These were natives,or NATURAL-BORN CITIZENS, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners."
-Chief Justice Morrison Waite
Writing the Minor v. Happersett opinion for a unanimous Supreme Court...1875
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Born in country, to citizen parents (plural)
Except that is a misquote. Vattel never wrote that. It first appeared in a bad translation 10 years AFTER the Constitution. And Minor did not address who was a NBC because no one had any doubt for the person in question.
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That is not relevent!
SCOTUS said otherwise in a case where it was the subject, and the justices were founders.
Dicta in other cases has no bearing.