[Las Vegas Ron]

I have a simple question for you, I hope you can answer it without utilizing your never ending talent of going around in circles.

What, is the difference between a Citizen and a Natural Born Citizen?

[EnderWiggins]

"What, is the difference between a Citizen and a Natural Born Citizen?"

Citizen is a general term that includes all natural born citizens and all naturalized citizens.

Natural born citizen is a special (not general) term that excludes naturalized citizens.

(Note the symmetry. Natural vs. naturalized. It's not an accident).

[Red Steel]

What, is the difference between a Citizen and a Natural Born Citizen?

This graphic should help. As you see, the natural born citizen is inside the big circle that encompasses all US citizens. So an NBC is still a citizen but not all citizens are NBC.

[Danae]

A citizen is a person who was either born in the US on our soil, or someone with at least one parent who is a citizen.

A citizen can have more than one citizenship. For instance, having an American Mother and a Jamaican Father. That person has American and Jamaican citizenship, and can choose between either one, otherwise known as divided loyalties. Look up Jamaican Skier Kerr who is in this year’s Olympics. He fits this example perfectly as does Obama.

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A Natural Born Citizen is someone who was born in the United States to two parents who are citizens.

A Natural Born Citizen has no other potential citizenship(s). He is 100% American, by both the factor of inheriting his parents citizenship, and being born on the soil of our nation. He or she is of undivided loyalty in the sense that the Founding Fathers intended.