[Jeff Winston]

[Bellei] lost [his US citizenship] because he didn't fulfill a residency requirement for someone in his category (since abolished, as I understand it). This is one of the cases around the edges I mentioned before, because I've seen cases like his called "automatic naturalization." But if he had fulfilled the residency requirement and retained his citizenship-from-birth, I don't think anyone would have challenged his eligibility for the presidency.

I agree.

Isn't it astonishing that there are a group of us here that keep coming to the same or at least extremely similar conclusions regarding various legal cases and situations, such as Bellei? And the 14th Amendment?

Apparently, there are some of us here who know how to read and understand court cases.

[DiogenesLamp]

I agree.

And this is where your logic goes completely off the rails. Nothing an individual does subsequently can affect the circumstances of his birth.

They either are, or are not, at the moment of their birth. There is no "conditional" modification of what is "natural citizenship."