a natural born citizen is a citizen naturally... AS THERE ARE NO ALTERNATIVES
if you were born to two US citizens... but on foreign soil... you can be either US and/or a citizen of the other country.
if you were born on US soil, but one or both of your parents are foreign citizens... you can be either US and/or a citizen of the other country.
the ONLY way you can be a NATURAL BORN citizen is to be born of TWO US citizen parents on US soil.
amazing how many people try to confuse such a simplistic issue. then again, they’re doing it for political reasons... but they’re still wrong
The only way you can be a natural-born citizen without a doubt is to be born of two US citizen parents on US soil.
Some authorities have gone further, relating to individuals born within US jurisdiction regardless of parentage. As to these there have been doubts, but never as to the first, which are those born to two citizen parents within US jurisdiction.
That is a paraphrase of Chief Justice Morrisson Waite in Minor v. Happersett.
The very first session of Congress attempted to legislate natural-born citizenship to those born beyond the sea to citizen parents, but this Act was repealed and replaced in 1795, making those born beyond the sea to citizen parents, citizens themselves. Just "citizens." The words "natural born" were deleted. This demonstrates that Original Intent was not automatic exclusion on the basis of not being born in the US, since the first Congress was largely comprised of Founders. There was clearly some problem with attempting to enact blanket legislation, however. That problem was foreign jus soli claims of sovereignty in my opinion.