To happily quote my FReind Highball;
The Constitution makes no distinction between natural born citizens and citizens at birth. They are one and the same. That means, until Congress passes a law to the contrary, that all children born to United States citizens abroad, or born in the United States regardless of parentage (except those born to diplomats or invading armies in wartime) are United States citizens.
The Constitution says what it says. Birthers like to pretend otherwise in hope of some political advantage that we couldn’t get at the ballot box, which is anathema to conservatism.
Those of us who truly love the Constitution have to respect it even it doesn’t say what we wish it did.
X-spurt you state “The Constitution makes no distinction between natural born citizens and citizens at birth. They are one and the same.”
If that is true then why does Article 2 Section 1 make the distinction of having two types of Citizen in it?
‘No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President;...’
See post #75.
They are definitely and easily shown not to the be same.
Puerto Ricans are NOT natural born Citizen since they are definitely NATURALIZED.
Yet, they are citizens at birth.