The U.S. Code tells us who is a citizen at birth!!!!
“There are citizens born on US soil of citizens, who are natural born citizens.”
Provide me with an undisputed authority on that statement, and I will be delighted.
The 14th says nothing about presidential eligibility, yes. But it does say there are two kind of citizens. Born and naturalized. If you are not BORN a citizen, you must be naturalized. Wong held that if you are BORN in the U.S., you are a citizen at birth. The 14th Amendment says there are two kinds of citizens: born and naturalized. On or off. That’s it. Anyone not BORN a citizen (and the U.S. Code tells us who IS born a citizen) must be naturalized. How many ways there are to be naturalized is totally irrelevant.
Citizen at birth and natural born citizen and native-born citizen are used interchangeably by the Supreme Court.
Look, if you are are a citizen at birth, you cannot be a naturalized citizen, right. So if that’s true, that is, if you are not a naturalized citizen, then there’s only one other kind you can be, according to the 14th Amendment. And that other kind is BORN. And if you are born a citizen, you must be natural born.
The statute says if you are born in the U.S. you are a citizen at birth.
If citizen at birth does not mean natural born, then something is very wrong. This is insane.
The 14th Amendment leaves us with no other choice. There are no “native” and “natural born” or “citizen at birth” according to the 14th Amendment. There are just BORN and NATURALIZED.
NO OTHER CHOICES.
If “natural born” is SUPPOSED to REALLY mean something else, then someone had better say it, because right now it does not mean that at all.
If the 14th changed citizenship into just born and naturalized. Why wasn’t the text of Article II changed to require the president to be a born citizen?