[Mollypitcher1]

And the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond Sea, or out of the limits of the United States,

shall be considered as natural born Citizens:
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And the children of citizens......plural, ????????????????

[Mollypitcher1]

The uniform definition of “natural born Citizen” was already provided by the law of nations and was already settled.
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The Law of Nations published in 1758 by E. de Vattel.

[Yosemitest]

I can be just as STUPID as you can.

So I guess that means that
if there are not TWINSD born at the same time, they cannot be citizens ? < /sarc>

[Yosemitest]

I can be just as STUPID as you can.

So I guess that means that
if there are not TWINS born at the same time, they cannot be citizens ? < /sarc>

[jaydee770]

“...And the children of citizens......plural, ?...”

Grammatically correct if they expected more than one citizen to give birth beyond the boundaries. A father is not required to be physically present at the moment of birth, so it could be reasonably expected that (for one example) an expectant citizen mother may prefer a family-member midwife and return to her birth family’s home nation to give birth.

Since they didn’t include the word “both”, then I guess I stand corrected in that the (what I thought was a clear phrase) can be nit-picked to death. So, can we say that the 2nd amendment only pertains to muskets since the founding fathers could never have knowledge of the AR-15 platform and we have to assume what they “implied” rather than taking their written words at face value?