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[sorry about the delay in the reply, BTW]
So we have 2 types. Natural born and naturalized.
Naturalized is pretty simple. Since the uniform rule of naturalization is in the federal ballpark, would it be fair to say it would be defined as a citizen created by an action of the federal government? Or would you assign it another definition?
And since the natural-born definition is the one in contention, what would you define it as, and why?
Don't apologize for that, or then I'll have to apologize for this one, and this'll take forever.
Since the uniform rule of naturalization is in the federal ballpark, would it be fair to say it would be defined as a citizen created by an action of the federal government?
I'm not sure I'd use the word "defined." There may be few cases around the edges of citizens that are "automatically" naturalized somehow, and I think most consider that the Fourteenth Amendment declared some citizens to be natural born citizens. But generally speaking, yes, a naturalized citizen is one made so through some government-established process.
And since the natural-born definition is the one in contention, what would you define it as, and why?
A natural-born citizen is one who is a citizen from birth--it means the same thing as "born citizen" or "born a citizen." I define it that way because everything I've read on the subject makes the most sense that way.