I would like to know what your position is on the concept of citizenship via the operation of natural law insofar as to whether it implies that every person born has a natural allegiance that makes that person a Natural Born Citizen of a place, someplace, anyplace.
I ask this because I have to wonder, if this conjecture is true, how it is that there can be such a thing as a “stateless person”.
I have a specific example in mind that I may share depending on how this question is answered by the consensus of opinion here.
DNA can prove who your father is. It cannot prove where you are born. It doesn't get much more "natural" than nature. (The word "Nature" , "Natural" and "Nation" are derived from the same root word, which means "of birth." Native, Nativity, and Natal are other permutations of the same root. )
Jus Soli is silly. England adopted it to cement Scotland into the United Kingdom. It may be more practical for an Island nation where people seldom get in that don't belong there, but for a nation of our size, pegging citizenship to the fact you happened to be inside our borders is just silly.