“What I want to find? The exact language is: “And the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond Sea, or out of the limits of the Unites State, shall be sonsidered as natural born Citizens:”
Inform me. Based on that sentence, what is the definition of a natural born citizen. Does it not say that “...children of citizens of the United States... shall be considered as natural born citizens?”
Clearly, you can’t make those elisions without changing the meaning of the text. By doing so, you’re trying to expand the requirement for parental citizenship to persons born within the borders of the United States, when the text only addresses the status of persons born abroad.
“If the parents were not citizens, and the child was born here, it was not a citizen.”
Now you’re just making stuff up.
“We call them anchor babies today and Trump says he will stop that because it is not really legal.”
You’ve managed to stumble into, kind of, the real issue. The only way to deal with the anchor baby mess is to stop the mothers before they get inside the US. Pretending there’s some sort of magical reading of history that will overturn the current legal status is wishful thinking at best.
“Clearly, you can’t make those elisions without changing the meaning of the text.”
No, the clause I left out does does not change the meaning. They could have added one born on the back side of the moon is a natural born citizen.
You still, still refuse to see what is before your eyes, the definition of a natural born citizen.
“By doing so, you’re trying to expand the requirement for parental citizenship to persons born within the borders of the United States...”
Yes, yes. Can you give me a circumstance whereby the child of citizen parents born inside the United States is not a natural born citizen? That is obviously the default standard, and the Act adds to the understanding by applying it to a different contingency.
“..the text only addresses the status of persons born abroad.”
How can anyone be so stupid. It addresses the question of the status of children born abroad of citizen parents since that would be a valid queston on peoples’ mind. And it says yes, they are natuarl born. Notice no one was disputing that they were a citizen, the natural born status was being addressed.
Do you honestly think that they are saying that a person born abroad of citizen parents is certifiably a natural born citizen while a person born inside the United States of citizen parents cannot be certified as natural born.
Do you contend that the Act grants the possibility that a child, born of citizen parents inside the United States, may NOT be natural born citizen?
Look, this conversation is over. It has grown tiresome. I have no clue why you have your nose out of joint over something as simple and as historical. You did not mention the controversy over President Arthur, which occurred a long, long time ago. You are either completely stupid or trolling me or someone who is not a natural born citizen yourself and is pissed off about it.