And that is why James Kent so rightly wrote in his treatises on the Constitution and American Law that while all born on the soil are natives, not all natives are natural born citizens.
Thanks Patlin, As you know well, for many this language is not well understood by many readers. I hadn't paid attention until I wondered about Obama's eligibility, which was certainly put into doubt with all the secrecy, secrecy which is still maintained, around his background.
Yes, anyone who hasn't read the 14th Amendment wouldn't know that U.S. Indians, "natives" or "Native-born" because they were born on U.S. soil, were not only not natural born citizens, they were not naturalized, "naturalized at birth" as Cruz redundantly crows. They were not made citizens. To John Bingham and the House of Representatives, there was no doubt about the definition, "being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen….", the quotation from Congressman and 14th Amendment author John Bingham taken from Bingham's address to the House in 1866.