[MamaTexan]

So then if a mother is a citizen then how is it that a child born to that mother NOT a citizen based on "inheritence by blood"?

It IS inheritance by blood...but it takes more than a mother to make a child, so the wholesale discounting of not only the citizenship of the father, but his very existence is patently ridiculous.

[FreeReign]

So then if a mother is a citizen then how is it that a child born to that mother (is) NOT a citizen based on "inheritence by blood"?

It IS inheritance by blood...but it takes more than a mother to make a child, so the wholesale discounting of not only the citizenship of the father, but his very existence is patently ridiculous.

Well of course it takes more than a mother to make a child. That's not the point. Using your phrasing, a child should "inherit by blood" their citizenship from their mother.

I would think that Common Law and Natural law would certainly recognize the close bond between mother and child.

Being "patently ridiculous" is to deny such a natural and commonly understood link.