[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Ugh. I can't stand birtherism, but the excerpt is flatly wrong when it says:

If one of your parents was a US citizen, which is the case in all four examples, you are a natural born US citizen.

That simply isn't true, and the statute says no such thing. If you have only one citizen parent and are born overseas, there are a variety of other requirements laid out in the statute if you are to be considered to be a citizen at birth. That being said, I 100% agree with the idea that "natural born citizen = citizen at birth, for all the reasons that have been stated exhaustively here for more than a decade.

[DiogenesLamp]

That being said, I 100% agree with the idea that "natural born citizen = citizen at birth, for all the reasons that have been stated exhaustively here for more than a decade.

And how do you jive this notion with the conditions with which some citizens have to comply to retain citizenship?

(Residency requirements and so forth.)

I know I could have gone overseas and never came back, and I would still have US Citizenship, but these "statute" based citizens would get their citizenship revoked for doing that.

Seems to me conditional citizenship isn't natural citizenship.

[TheElectionWasStolen]

We don’t know who his parents are.